people become shadows ~

Summer of 2011:

Looking back again in this post - I ended a post a few days ago with a question of whether the acupuncture treatments were going to be the answer and the post shingles neuralgia would begin to heal. The answer: No. After 13 treatments, I knew that was over! My doctor was wonderful, but she was puzzled that there was no improvement.  I was beginning to know that this was just between the Lord and me and He had a plan, and I'd best pay attention to Him and Him alone.
Peace ~
Rest ~
Trust ~
This was a good, good time.

Some more entries in my Thanksgiving Journal during the summer of 2011:
~ chosen
~ friendships
~ flowers
~ slept for six hours in a row!
~ pain is the same
~ a frowning Providence
~ Your love is my shelter
~ joy in the midst of confinement
~ Psalm 56.8 "You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in Your bottle; are they not in Your Book?"  Love this!
~ more pain than usual for a few days!
~ lessons in contentment
~ Psalm 119
~ Shellie's joy
~ Shannon and Greg arrived safely in DC
~ no expectations
~ acceptance
~ a different vision
~ life change?

I could go on and on, but looking back at these few things for which I was learning to give thanks is a good exercise in where this journey began and where I am today!


January 19, 2013:

"As soon as God becomes real, people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.
"Whenever God gives a vision to a saint, He puts him, as it were, in the shadow of His hand, and the saint's duty is to be still and listen. There is a darkness which comes from excess of light, and then is the time to LISTEN. Genesis 15 is an illustration of listening to good advice - (from people) when it is dark - instead of waiting for God to send the light. When God gives a vision and darkness follows, WAIT. God will work in accordance with the vision He has given if you will wait His time. Never try and help God fulfil His word! Abraham went through thirteen years of silence, but in those years all self-sufficiency was destroyed; there was no possibility left of relying on common-sense ways. Those years of silence were a time of discipline, not of displeasure. Never pump up joy and confidence, but stay upon God.
"Have I any confidence in the flesh? Or have I got beyond all confidence in myself and in men and women of God; in books, in prayers and ecstasies; and is my confidence placed now in God Himself, not in His blessings?"
~ Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Blessings,
Jayne