Conversations with God

I saw this old piano and hymn book and thought of my Great Sustainer.

ME: When will this man ask me to marry him?

GOD: You both are sheep but are longing to find your way home. I am your Shephard…come back to me and make this covenant as three.

ME: God, please save our baby….don’t let me miscarry.

GOD: My child, let the little one come to me, for such belongs the kingdom of God. Your baby is safe in my arms. You will see him again one day.

ME: God, please give us means to be missionaries in Brazil. We know the harvest is great and the workers are few.

GOD: My child, look right outside your front door. There is a field waiting to be sown. Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. People from everywhere, including your neighbors, need to meet me.

ME: God, let me be a stay at home mom. I want to be with my children.

GOD: Child, students may not be your children, but they are My children. I’ve placed you there for reasons that are important. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me.

ME: God, please help my husband get a raise at work. He is such a hard worker and we really need the money.

GOD: Child, have faith that I will provide for you and your family. Seek first My kingdom and My righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

ME: God, please help me feel renewed; my spirit feels anxious with these everyday life worries.

GOD: Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Come find your rest in me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

ME: God, I love you.

GOD: Shawna, I love you.

Yes, God knows me by name.

Many times in life I do not understand why things happen or why they don’t; not only in my personal life, but in the circumstances of other peoples’ lives as well. Sometimes even in the lives of people I’ve never met. Many times I ask God why certain things happen or wonder what He is up to in a particular situation. Sometimes I get an answer that meets my heart’s desire, while other times I don’t like the answer at all. But all in all I know that every moment in time was laid out before a single day had passed. His ways are not always our ways, but His ways are right and just.

In His Name & All His Glory,

Shawna