Reflections:
We never know how truly blessed we are until time has passed and age has sharpened our hindsight. It's in the looking back, (not the going through), that the "real" perspective can be gained because it is devoid of all the distractions and emotions of the time.
Many times I will admit to financial blindness towards the future while raising our family and things seemed on the carnal side "tight".
But God says in His Word "that I have never seen the righteous forsaken or His children begging bread." We have always had a roof over our heads and food on the table, proof of this is in my "physical disposition."
As I look back now, sitting at the table overlooking the pond in Luray, Tn. I can engage the panoramic view of Elise and I and our life sharply, objectively, and without the distraction of emotion.
We started out in marriage "stone in love" confident in gaining all that a young bricklayer and a pretty young lady could think without putting on airs of grandeur. We grew in love and life low these many years and tenderness bloomed in that journey making it a relationship of mind, heart and strength. God reintroduced Himself about 1981 and by doing so added faith to the relationship (the only part that was missing).
That part about God is clearly the hindsight that I see through now with how He covered those not so well thought out plans for the future and has given us this incredible inheritance. I take no credit for our present condition because God has overcome obstacles of govt., ill health (joints), financial loss, and ignorance (on my part and on the part of others), to give us this sensational peace (yes peace not piece) of property that is our home now. Since we have been here we have suffered much disappointment to get established but His hand has been miraculously at work in solving our problems while teaching us to continue in prayer and to Love at a deeper level.
We have an incredible relationship with Him and each other, incredible Children, Grandchildren, Friends, Neighbors, a pond full of catfish, land rented out for crops, two paid for cars, a pension, SS, and a dream coming to pass that Elise and I never thought would come to fruition. All this was not without struggle of emotion but full of faith that God had our backs even when we were "the blind leading the blind".
Before we start any project I always pray that God would "bless that which we put our hands to do, thy will be done". He is faithful and has done that more times than I could count. Did I know His will for all things? No and it wasn't always made clear the path we should take, but once started, after prayer, He made His will manifest by the signs that He was in it by intervening with powerful manifestations of finances and approvals that made the projects happen. We were not alone in what we have done, blind or otherwise............ever.
In hindsight my wife and I have never been alone in life's journey and in reflection have never been without Divine guidance in all matters big or small.
Not only has God "filled our quiver" with His inheritance but He has "manifested Himself" in signs and wonders with great miracles both physical and spiritual, providing for all our needs, all our days.
For all the faith we have (not that our faith is made perfect yet), God has done "exceedingly abundant above and beyond what we could think or ask" and made His Glory known in our lives.
His greatest Gift has been Jesus Christ and the Unconditional Love that has been shown to us so that we can (having freely received), freely give abundantly to others.
May the grace and mercy of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be always with you. Amen.
Love
J&E in Tn
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