MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS

MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says the Lord.  Isaiah 55:8 RSV

I had just shared these words with my sister one morning recently. We were all waiting for test results that her husband had undergone.  He had been ill and in great pain for a very long time.

Half an hour later I received the news that our neighbor’s partner had died suddenly. She wasn’t sure why and was understandably in shock.

She said to my husband, “This is my second time down this road.” She had lost her husband five years ago to cancer.

We plan our days, even weeks blithely without a thought about whether we shall be present to enjoy our plans. Perhaps that is why death is such a shock when it comes.

I scurried to my laptop to put these thoughts on paper. The inertia for writing that I had been experiencing for the last couple of months was instantly gone.

I have much to say, countless words that God has placed in my heart and in my thoughts and I realized that now is the time to write them as I do not know how much time I have here on this earth.

These are not morbid thoughts but rather encouraging and invigorating, awakening me to the adventure of living the life that God has planned and purposed for me.

I am indeed blessed but my days on earth are also indeed numbered so I want to make each moment and opportunity that I have to proclaim His love and gift of salvation through my writing and prayer ministry.

I have moved from inertia to exhilaration today. I am on an adventure with my heavenly Father.

Who will join me?