The Quiet Place

Isaiah 43:18-19 “Forget the former things;  do not dwell on the past.  See, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the wilderness  and streams in the wasteland. About Three and a half years ago, after getting my heart broken, God gave me a word. God's word to me was Isaiah 43:18-19, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland". This word gave me great comfort. It also instructed me to work on leaving behind what I wanted to bring with me. You see it took me a long time to stop dragging around the grief and memories of an old relationship. Ever been there? I'm sure I'm not the only one. Anyways, at that time I had absolutely no idea what new thing God was doing. Though I hoped, dreamed, and knew that he had a Husband out there for me somewhere and I still know...

For we have been reconciled to Christ we are no longer slaves to the ways of this world we are slaves to the ways of God. (A personal paraphrase of Romans 6:17-19) My pastor shared tonight of a man who was on an island fighting for Japan in World War Two. The man was so loyal to his mission that when people sent word to him that the war was over he did not believe them and thought it was a trap. You see everyone on the island had surrendered except for three people. The thing is the man ended up fighting for thirty years after the war was over because he was hidden in that island and he saw every attempt that people made to inform him that the war was finished, as a trap. He even killed 30 innocent people because of it. When someone was finally able to reach out to this man and peacefully inform him that the war had been long finished, the man was so sad that he had missed out on thirty years.  This story is so sad, frustrating, and disappointing because this man fou...