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 You know you are right in the center of where God wants you when you begin to feel the attacks of satan. I know beyond a doubt that God has led me to Living Truth. He has blessed me tremendously through so many of you.
However, satan is not happy about that. I've been in a real spiritual battle this past week. Unfortunately, satan knows where/how to hurt us -- and he has pulled out all the stops. I have dealt with several very hurtful situations this week. Just when I think it's over, WHAM another painful slap in the face.
It's been a rough week for all of us, as this situation is hurtful to my children as well, so I figured for our last day of summer vacation, we would go to the beach one last time. Being the sea shell-aholic that I am, I was hoping that Tropical Storm Erin would have stirred up some pretty shells. Unfortuantely it was high tide when we got there, so it wasn't a good day for collecting sea shells.
Anyway, today was a surfer's paradise -- the waves were big and beautiful. There were a lot of surfers out. Jonathan had never been out when the waves were that big, and since there wasn't much of a rip current, I took him out there so he could experience the bigger waves. To get to the big rolling waves, we had to battle through where all the waves were crashing. We'd take a few steps and get knocked over and swept backwards by a wave. We'd go a little further and the same thing would happen. But.... we eventually got out there -- anf after fighting all the crashing waves, the waves were bigger -- but just rolling waves. Once we got out there, we could just kind of jump/ride the wave - without it crashing down on us.
It's a lot how life is. We take a few steps forward and a wave crashes down on us and knocks us backwards. So, we get up and get a little further this time before being knocked backwards. If we can get through those rough trial times when everything crashes down on us, we can get to where we can just ride the waves without being tossed about by them.
I may have made it to that point in the Gulf today, but I have not made it to that point in my life right now. I still feel as though every time I get up, another wave crashes down on me. I know God will carry me through this -- but right now is really hard. I don't like to hurt. I don't like to cry. I am thankful that we do have a Comforter. Please pray that I get through these crashing waves soon. |
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