01-26-07

I believe that everything happens for a reason. Every day, everything we do has an impact on our lives. Last year my children and I were in FL and our favorite thing to do was hang out at the pool. We were camping at basically a senior's campground. Some of the seniors did'nt like us too much.... four rowdy children to ruin their quiet swim... but a few couples just loved us!! One couple right next to us loved us so much they took over grandparent responsibilities for the time we were there. Another couple, a mild woman named Dellie, and her outgoing husband Eldon struck up a friendship with us. We were always in the pool, and so was Eldon. Dellie did'nt like the water so she sat pool side while Eldon swam everyday.
Now... you ask why in the world an older retired couple and a young single mom want to become friends? What do they have in common?

Today I got my mail.... carried in by a snow covered son... half of it was soaking wet... but there was a card in that stack of mail. See, Eldon and I have kept in touch through IM. We like to play pool together @ yahoo games. He did a really cool thing, he took the Christmas picture of my children and I and blew it up, and put it up on the bullitan board at his church. See.... it does not matter what denominaion you are.... what kind of church you attend.. Baptist, Catholic, Pentacostal...What matters is who is in charge of the believers at those churches across America. What matters is all those prayers and the faith of God's body.

I opened a beautiful card with butterflies on it (I love butterflies). In it were signatures.... signatures of people I have never met... signatures of people I won't meet until we reach heaven. Signatures of people who are praying for me. I sat in total awww. The tears just flooded my eyes. I touched every name in that card and just prayed.... a prayer of thanks, a prayer of rejoicing because these strangers care about me, and my beautiful children!

The Day I met Eldon and Dellie we had one thing in common, Jesus Christ. We are friends through the generations and distance, but our God, our common bond has given them long lives to live, and our joint prayer is that he blesses me with a long healthy life also.

So, the next time you cross paths with someone, maybe dig a little deeper, and know that there is a reason that you are meeting :) :)



MOUNTAIN OF GOD by Third Day:

Thought that I was all alone broken and afraid
but you were there with me you were there with me and I didin't even know that I had lost my way
but you were there with me yes, you were there with me until you opened up my eyes I never knew that I couldn't ever make it without you

CHORUS
Even though the journey's long and I know the road is hard you're the one who's gone before me you will help me carry on
and after all that I've been through now I realize the truth that I must go through the valley to stand upon the mountain of God

VERSE II
As I travel on the road did you ever let me down?
you are here with me yes, you are here with me and I have need for nothing more oh now that I have found that you are here with me yes, you are here with me I confess from time to time I lose my way
but you are always there to bring me back again

CHORUS BRIDGE
Well sometimes I think of where ever it is I've come from and things I've left behind well of all I've had what I posessed oh they can't quite compare to what's in front of me yeah to what's in front of me