….someone comes into your life who just changes the whole perspective on how you view a situation.
A couple of months ago I was [I felt] badly betrayed on a public forum by someone who I thought I knew and it was done in a very public fashion portraying me as someone nasty and unkind, [I am many things but nasty and unkind I know I am not]. For many reasons there was no opportunity to defend myself and to be quite honest I actually didn’t want to – I felt there was no place for me there anymore if people could actually believe that of me without even hearing ‘my side of the story’ so to speak. The sad part was I’d been a member for over five years and I just felt abandoned and that the whole forum was against me even if that may not have actually been the case. I was probably hasty in that assumption looking back but emotional hurt warps your view on things sometimes.
Anyhow I won’t dwell on that particular incident but someone who was also a member of the same forum contacted me yesterday and said how much she’d missed having me in her life. I had actually missed ‘L’ also. She’d been a part of my cyber life for many years and had helped me one very black day after Ethan was born which I have never forgotten. She has suffered some terrible losses in her life but has always managed to give to others in a very gentle and sincere way. She is also a fellow Catholic. Just reading her email reduced me to tears at the realisation that not everyone felt I was ‘that bad person’. The betrayal must have had a bigger impact on me than I was prepared to admit at the time.
This is a huge lesson in not tarring every one with the same brush – all the reasons why we should not be judgemental. I had been unfairly judged and in return I too was wrongly judging others. A perfect time also to remember that God has a hand in everything and I’m sure that it is He who has bought this about. I clung tightly to my faith during that sad time and although I got no immediate answers I knew I was right to leave the whole thing safely in God’s hands. It can be no mistake that is was ‘L’ who He sent to help me make sense of that time. I hope to carry ‘L’ with me into my future as a friend and a permenant reminder from God that He always hears our prayers and that His timing as always is perfect. I had reached an all time low yesterday with the house sale hassles, problems with Mike, Millie’s anxiety rearing it’s ugly head again and all the stress that can go with Christmas [if you let it] and receiving that email lifted a huge weight that I wasn’t even aware was there until it had gone.
For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling: he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock. Psalm 27:5 TNIV
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. Psalm 136:1 TNIV
So, next time you’re fizzing or hurting over something that has wounded you deeply remember with God on your side there’s nothing to fear.
May God bless you abundantly L and thank you xx.
pax
Angels Everywhere
Oh, if we could only see into the unseen world, then we would not be so fearful of this life. Elisha the prophet of God prayed for his servant that God would open his eyes, and when his servant saw the heavens full of chariots of fire he was no longer afraid.
Many years ago there was a lady in a little Pentecostal Church in Cornwall who was afraid of living alone in her flat, so when Diane and I took her home after Church, we prayed for angels all around her flat, and in every room and cupboard. Her faith rose up in her so much, it was as if she saw angels everywhere, and all fear and loneliness left her.
Oh, if only we would believe.
“The angel of the Lord encampeth around about them that fear Him, and delivereth them,” {Psalm 34 v 7}. Praise the Lord Jesus
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CE
Thank you for visiting and leaving such a beautiful comment.
Every blessing to you.
pax
Sharon xx
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I am so glad you received that e mail – as previously said there are angels everywhere.
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Glad you were blessed Sharon Every blessing to you to
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So glad about this Sharon :0)
with love
Allie xxx
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Oh Allie – thank you so much for that xxxxx.
love in return
Sharon xx
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What a beautiful gift you have received 🙂 I am so pleased for you, hon..
Continuing to pray for you in your situation,
AR xxx
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Such beautiful words Sharon, I am honoured to be your friend now and always.
With Love
L xx
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L
You are so welcome. Life moves on regardless doesn’t it so we’ll just move on together.
Pax
Sharon xx
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