Psalm 73:28
I’ve been wondering when I would start writing again. And well … this is it … and this is why.
Psalm 73:28.
Let me explain …
I asked y’all to pray about my trip to Midland (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) and at the same time asked y’all for some recipes (GREAT ideas from all of you!!! - my personal favorite was from one of my cousins suggesting I get a Chick Fil A tray since that’s kind of our “go to” meal anyway).
But back to Midland. It was too unbelieveable for words. As much as I wanted to write about it earlier this week, I couldn’t. I had to just let it all soak in for awhile. Even if I wrote pages of words, I wouldn’t be able to describe the experience I had in Midland. As I told the ladies, that truly became like sisters to me over the weekend, … “it was a wonderfully planned, prepared, prayed for and positively delightful event”. It was called “Home for the Holidays” and each one of my new Midland friends made me feel like I was the one who had come “home for the holidays”.
I mean for starters they combined food and shopping and that’s almost like a love song or something.
They ended up having to turn people away at the door (due to the fact that the Midland newspaper ran a cover story on the event and said “tickets still available” … only they were sold out by that point).
When I got up to speak, one of my prayers was that my words could somehow bless the ladies that were there as much as each of them had blessed me. Truly I cannot tell you how much I love these people. I have so many stories to share about them in the days to come.
I got back to Houston late Saturday night and Sunday morning got to teach in a young marrieds department at our church. It was so funny because they asked me if I could teach the last weekend in October. Seeing how Friday and Saturday (the 30th and 31st) were still in October … I thought that meant it was this weekend they wanted me to teach. When I realized my mistake, I thought “OH NO!” how am I going to prepare! But as I read the email further it said the lesson was on Psalm 73. And I thought….“Whew…one of my favorite verses ever is in Psalm 73 so I thought … “piece of cake…I’ll just talk about that”.
But then I began to read Psalm 73 and meditate on it and let’s just say one of my favorite lessons ever came from this passage. There’s lots I love about it and I’ll tell you more about it later but I noticed that in the margin of my Bible (have I mentioned that pages are now falling out of my Bible!) I had written a date in 2005.
Which brings me back to Psalm 73:28 …
That verse says:
But as for me, it is good to be near God.
I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge;
I will TELL of all your deeds.
And I realized I had to tell you. I had to tell you that I think God was glorified on Saturday. I had to tell you that ladies prayed and planned and prepared and God blessed their offerings to Him. I had to tell you that God heard your prayers and I got to present how He is the gift to our world.
And I’m gonna keep on telling y’all stuff.
Because I wrote in my Bible back in 2005 that I would.