Started moving today. We will be gone by Saturday, Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.
Of course with that foolishness they call a detour coming out of New Franklin (a barely 2 lane dirt road with solid mud shoulders, dust flying and major traffic shunted that direction since they tore down the viaduct coming into town), the creek could rise.
But I think the Lord is willing.
One thing for sure, the devil is surely active in our lives right now. Several things lead me to think this:
1. The van is giving us trouble. Any time we start to do something good, our car gives us trouble. I wish the Lord would take care of it, because it happens each time we start to do something good. The gearshift lever doesn’t want to go into gear, so each time I have to do a manual override to get it to do so. At least it still works, though.
2. Ella is having a lot of physical troubles and is in pain despite her neurostimulator and all of her pain pills. Any time we begin to do something good, the devil touches her strongly and makes her hurt. I hate it.
God could change any of these things and I do not know why he doesn’t. He knows we are faithful. We have been faithful in spite of a lot. The church has ripped my family to shreds in the past, yet I still love it and will continue to do so. And he knows that.
I guess I stand with the apostle Paul who had a severe physical difficulty (2 Corinthians 12:7-10). God left him alone with this also and told him to deal with it, in so many words.
We have gone through so much in the past five years, to the point of losing any good credit rating we had. We have gone through a lot of pain and heartache. Because of what the church has done to us, my son has left the Lord. My daughter continues, but I figured she would. She loves God and the church too much to quit. There are people who will have to give accounting of what they did to my children through me. I forgive them, but they left some major scars.
Well, of course, they killed Jesus, and he didn’t anything wrong. He brought in change, of course, and they didn’t like that.
Not that I can hold a candle to him. But I stand in good company.
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