Wayfarer's window!

It is amazing how the most beautiful songs come from the most difficult times. Lady Antebellum and "Thy Will". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAmh3yvmzXs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp4WC_YZAuw

Through the last two weeks I have been groping behind a closed door. Dismayed and disappointed. Deep within is an assurance that "all things work together for good" and my life is in God's hands. However, the reality of each moment comes back with discomfort and pain. It is all of a sudden, last Sunday, I hear a song. It gets stuck in my mind. Through the week the song keeps repeating, reverberating ...as an old stuck record. This morning, I am compelled to go to the internet, hoping perhaps google will give me more clues about the song. Thankfully it is there, in you tube, with the composer who narrates the story behind the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU9zuoXbCLA

I bookmark this day. Such days do not come often. So clearly when I hear the Voice. Clear, meant for me. Prophetic. 11th August, 2016. Here in the morning as usual; my first thing in the morning in my work day. My time with Oswald Chambers. "My utmost for His Highest". "This experience must come". http://utmost.org/this-experience-must-come/ It is clear what I hear. It is unmistakable. I cannot continue with what I have held for so long. I had depended on it. My Elijah. This Word is for me. It is prophetic. I do not know what is ahead. Yet I know it is coming. A loss. A grave loss. And in minutes, "up in the whirlwind it went and I saw it no more". What now? I am shaken, stirred, hit.......I am alone. I go back, I read "utmost" again and slowly it comes to me....like stages of progression of what lies ahead. Alone at my Jericho. Alone at my Jordan. Alone at my Bethel. Yet, I am not alone....in each of the challenges I am g...

"And she was in bitterness of her soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore" 1 Sam 1:10 It has been a tumultuous month for me. Unexpected upheavals and unforeseen blessings. In times like these, my regular Bible study has taken me to the book of 1st Samuel. Here, I meet young Hannah; with her own story of grief and turmoil. As I read the prayer of Hannah, I quickly note many aspects of her prayer. She prays to the Lord of Hosts, she prays in faith, she prays in tears, she prays with fasting, she prays persistently, expectantly and wholeheartedly. What happens after her prayer is answered is history.... I am driven to think aloud "When life gives you turbulence, its time to remember your moments of blessing! and Pray!!". Here's a poem about lemons and grapes and coffee; the sour, the sweet and the bitter! "I wake up, a little late in the afternoon. It has been a long long night. I have been awake. It is only in the morning I have caught u...