GOD WILL MAKE A WAY WHEN THERE SEEMS TO BE NO WAY

Please listen to this song while you read this post. 

GOD WILL MAKE A WAY 

(Clinging to Hope by Charles Swindoll)

While working on my shower stall trying to undo the sloppy I work I did a couple of years ago, I was listening to this sermon by the great encourager Dr. Chuck Swindoll. The choir pastor got up and was giving a testimony about a bout of depression he went through and how all he wanted to do was sleep because he wasn't depressed or sad or crying when he was sleeping. Boy oh boy, can I relate. Then he brought up this song that his daughters played for him and the memories flooded back to me while sitting in my shower stall, pun intended! I clung to that song, listening to it everyday and made it my theme song for the year 1994, the year I cried my heart out every day in the shower because I wanted to move to a place that a year earlier I could not even place on a map.

I was working on getting all the adhesive up so I could re-caulk it, and GOD reminded me of how thirty years ago, this year, I would cry in my shower to him so my children could not hear me everyday because I wanted to move to Kentucky. When people asked me why I wanted to move here so much I could not give them an answer. I just wanted it enough to cry over it every day for a year. I had absolutely no idea how we were going to get here. We were two years in our newly built house in MA with two very young children and house broke. I couldn't see a pathway here until two months before we left. I saw GOD's hand in each miraculous step, and it proved to me that He was all over it and in it. Back then, as a baby Christian, I didn't understand the true Hebrew translation of Psalm 37:4, "Delight yourself in the LORD and the desires of your heart He set/put."

Now, too many miracles to count later, six children added, ten books written, and eight years of tears in a shower stall in a home that I almost own outright, GOD is reminding me that what is in my heart now, which makes no sense, is also from Him just like it was thirty years ago. It wasn't a pipe dream, then, it was a dream GOD put in my heart to just move to Kentucky even though I had no idea why. Back then I had no inkling that I was to come here and have six more children and write ten books. That unspoken desire in my heart now is no more a pipe dream than the dream GOD gave me that one agonizingly tearful year. Today makes the twelfth anniversary of what I call my burning bush experience with GOD at the most unlikely of places. Isn't that how He does it? This is the day, which happens to be the first day of spring, GOD brought to life in my heart what I call my Jubilee Dream, thus today is my own personal holiday I call my Jubilee Day. So, if you can't understand why you want something that makes no logical sense, remember, GOD is illogical to the human mind. If He put it there, then

GOD WILL MAKE A WAY WHEN THERE SEEMS TO BE NO WAY.