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Wish you Jesus!


Oh...life! Yesterday I went to the visitation of Jan Vandehey...a lady of the Lord, if ever there was one. Just on Saturday, I found this card that she had given me in high school. She has already passed on at that point but I was unaware...I just came across it in a box! As part of a youth group - FROGISH (Friends Reaching Out to God In Spiritual Harmony), Jan and her husband Ken led us with spirit and love and oh...my memories of Jesus from high school all relate to those two. And Barb...who I was in line with for 30 minutes this afternoon. Such a blessing!

Her passing means that Jan has gone from wishing everyone Jesus to BEING with Jesus! Jan couldn't cry because of a medical mishap...and I bet you when she saw Him, there were tears of Joy streaming down both of their faces!

I am also AMAZED at the impeccable timing of this note...and the day I had yesterday. I was wondering how to move forward in something...and my answers are right here: I have the strength - step by step, in the palm of my Creator's hands - and I have the words of something to strive for, thanks to a verse I saw at the church: "They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord," Psalm 112:7.

Steadfast. Is my heart steadfast? The definition includes words like resolutely, dutifully firm, and unwavering. I would love it be so! Wouldn't our lives all be so much easier if our hearts were steadfast, trusting the Lord?!

There's another verse that I love with that word: "...who [God] crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's" (Psalm 103 4b-5).

Those two ideas together give me crazy hope. Maybe it is okay that my heart isn't steadfast. Yet. Because God is busy crowning ME with his OWN steadfast love and mercy. It's there. I just have to grasp it. Believe it. Own it. And in the doing of those things, my own steadfastness will come.

It's almost there. Perhaps not dutifully firm...but not over-easy-soft either :)

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