HAVE NO FEAR. Three little words. What peace they give to a mind determined to live by them.
A fearless mindset can be cultivated. However, it isn’t a guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to us or our loved ones.
This past month our granddaughter Katie, age 29, was hit by a truck while her van stood still at an intersection waiting to turn. They driver fell asleep at the wheel going 35 miles per hour. Katie had her three -year-old and one and a half -year-old in in their car seats in back. Katie is seven-months pregnant. Her collarbone was badly broken, her head was cut and bled profusely and her children were traumatized as they watched an ambulance take their mother to the hospital. Fortunately Grandma quickly arrived on the scene. Monitoring tests show that the unborn baby is okay! Katie’s collarbone surgery required a plate and four screws, but she will recover and the totaled van has been replaced. Praise God, in six months or so, life will be “normal” again.
Where was God in this? God does not abandon us when we are afflicted. In fact, He has warned us this world is not a perfect place and bad things do happen. Precious Katie’s words to me were Grandma, “Pray that I’ll learn any lessons from this experience that God wants to teach me. It’s humbling to require help to do the simplest things.” My prayer for Katie and her distressed husband is that unexpected blessings will come their way even from this tragic event. Katie trusts God and refuses to live in fear from anything. She understands when Scripture says “In this world you will have tribulations, but have no fear for I have overcome the world.“
My friend Mary Kay has a box called SFGD with a pen and pad of paper next to it. When anything troubles her, she writes it down and then chooses to forget about. What do the letters stand for? SOMETHING FOR GOD TO DO. Great idea for us all.
WRITING UPDATE
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