God guides us, despite our uncertainties and our vagueness, even through our failings and mistakes
He leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterwards, as we look back over the way we have come
. do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.
PAUL TOURNIER
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is every ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails, never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end. (1 Corinthians 13:7-8, The Amplified Bible)
Love endures everything without weakening. When I read this scripture verse from the Amplified Bible it reminds me of my granny. My granny loved me till the day she died. As a matter of fact it was the last thing she said to me. She was 93 years old and was drifting in and out of a coma. She had not eaten very much the past few days, and my cousin Margaret and I were staying nights with her. We would read scripture to her, pray, anoint her skin with oil, and keep her lips moist. Sometime about two days before she peacefully slipped into eternity, I was sitting there and she opened her eyes, looked at me and mouthed the words I love you. I knew my granny loved me; she didnt have to tell me. Six years prior to this my granny shocked me by something she said, she asked me not to come to her house drunk or when I had been drinking. My granny was really all I had in life since my mother had died and it floored me to think that I was losing even that. I lived at one end of the family farm and granny lived at the other, and I was barred from going and visiting the place of my birth, the old home place. What I find being strange is that the power that alcohol had over me kept me away from my granny for a year. My self-centered, selfish, and greedy lifestyle preferred a drunken stupor to being with someone who truly loved me. In 1998 my granny had to go to a nursing home and my addictions were causing a living hell in my life. As I look back on it now can see God allowing me to reach this point in order to bring about a change in my life. I needed a power in my life that was greater than the power that drugs and alcohol had on me. I had nowhere to turn but to God, and to my surprise, just like my granny, God still loved me. As I came into recovery and sobered up, I took on the responsibility of taking care of the old home place. Over the next four years my relationship with my granny flourished and grew in a love that I had never experienced before. I became aware of the fact that her love for me had endured everything without weakening. Today as I sit in the house that my granny lived in for 70 years, and I look out the window to the bird feeders where her birds are feeding, I realize that love never fails. Love endures everything without weakening. Thanks for letting me share, God truly has done for me what I could not do for myself ..JRE
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, ones heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.
BILL WILSON
PAUL TOURNIER
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is every ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails, never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end. (1 Corinthians 13:7-8, The Amplified Bible)
Love endures everything without weakening. When I read this scripture verse from the Amplified Bible it reminds me of my granny. My granny loved me till the day she died. As a matter of fact it was the last thing she said to me. She was 93 years old and was drifting in and out of a coma. She had not eaten very much the past few days, and my cousin Margaret and I were staying nights with her. We would read scripture to her, pray, anoint her skin with oil, and keep her lips moist. Sometime about two days before she peacefully slipped into eternity, I was sitting there and she opened her eyes, looked at me and mouthed the words I love you. I knew my granny loved me; she didnt have to tell me. Six years prior to this my granny shocked me by something she said, she asked me not to come to her house drunk or when I had been drinking. My granny was really all I had in life since my mother had died and it floored me to think that I was losing even that. I lived at one end of the family farm and granny lived at the other, and I was barred from going and visiting the place of my birth, the old home place. What I find being strange is that the power that alcohol had over me kept me away from my granny for a year. My self-centered, selfish, and greedy lifestyle preferred a drunken stupor to being with someone who truly loved me. In 1998 my granny had to go to a nursing home and my addictions were causing a living hell in my life. As I look back on it now can see God allowing me to reach this point in order to bring about a change in my life. I needed a power in my life that was greater than the power that drugs and alcohol had on me. I had nowhere to turn but to God, and to my surprise, just like my granny, God still loved me. As I came into recovery and sobered up, I took on the responsibility of taking care of the old home place. Over the next four years my relationship with my granny flourished and grew in a love that I had never experienced before. I became aware of the fact that her love for me had endured everything without weakening. Today as I sit in the house that my granny lived in for 70 years, and I look out the window to the bird feeders where her birds are feeding, I realize that love never fails. Love endures everything without weakening. Thanks for letting me share, God truly has done for me what I could not do for myself ..JRE
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, ones heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.
BILL WILSON