I took this picture on the side of the interstate during one
of the biggest “Live by Faith, not by sight” moments in my life.
After having spent the previous 13 years of my life with a
certain someone whom I also happened to share 6 children with, God signaled me
it was time to move and by move I mean to leave the father of my children and
hit the road. At the time our family was living in Colorado in an RV and the
Limo you see above was my car. He had a jeep.
To shorten the story, the Limo had not been taken care of
for almost a year and she was driving rough. When God called me out in faith, I
had a mere $400 in my back pocket and a car that I wasn’t sure would make it
down the road let alone out of the state! As you can see by the picture, it was
a rough time indeed. However, I have come to learn and even appreciate the
truth that often it is during the hardest times in our lives that God gets to
show off just how amazing He is in all He does for His children.
I’ll never forget hitting the road thinking I was coming
back to Indiana when God informed me otherwise. He instructed me to drive to
Mackinac Island where my grandmother was staying in her summer cottage. While I
thought that was the craziest idea I had ever heard, I obeyed and plugged the
location into my phone. What should have only taken a couple of days at the
most, took me a full ten days!
The miracles that took place along our trip are something
the children still talk about to this day. It was beyond crazy which is how you
know God is involved! When we left Colorado, we saw a double rainbow end to end
with such vibrant colors I wept over it. The same thing happened when we
arrived at the docking station to ride the ferry in Michigan. We ended up only
staying there for 10 days before heading on to Indiana. The beauty in all of it was amazing. God sent
me to Michigan to heal, rest, soak in his love and to be there for my grandma
who just happened to have no visitors during that time which NEVER happens.
I still don’t know what all God has in store for me. He
nudges me here and there. Like this job I have at the church. I knew it was
supposed to be mine. I knew it so deeply I told some that I was just going to
keep waiting for God to move the mountains that seemed to be blocking my path
out of the way and lo and behold, He did. I love this job. I love praying over
the church and all our members. I love creating the pictures to post on Instagram
and these little shares. It all is a blessing to me and none of it would be my
reality today if I did not learn to live by faith!
As members of Westfield Friends Church I can only pray that
we continue to pray for one another. That we pray for lost souls and that we
unite in our efforts to serve this little community that this church was blessed
to be the founders of! Until tomorrow my fellow followers of Christ, Be
blessed, but more importantly, be a blessing!
Your sister in Christ,
Wendy
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