My Mother and Father (A small thing that stuck.)

My Mother and Father (A small thing that stuck.)

 

      Great sunday today. Beautiful weather, incredible mood, awesome service, and in the middle of all this a key principle.  A memory. A lesson.

Awoke this morning in a great mood, just felt good, one of them days. Got in the truck and got on my way to church. Jamming in the truck listening to some good tunes, getting my church on before church.

Had a long week and by this time I was needing some of Gods word to set me straight for the next one. Well ask and you shall recieve....acctually recieved a good bit more than I asked for. So get to church, they kicked some of my more favorite songs put me even more in the mood to get whatever mesage it was today. So Dave (Preacher) gets up there and is telling a story about a woman he knew and how her husband was very ill and in the hospital. Well he and a few other friends of the man went to the hospital to pray for there friend and they sang some songs and prayed with the mans wife. Throughout it all she stayed well composed and although worried she didn't seem distraught. He asked her "Why are you not histerical, where did you get this amazing faith. She responded "The Lord will not challenge me with more than I can conquer, will not burden me with more than my shoulders can bear." How strong a statement from someone who is going though what most would consider the most devastating event of her life. And yet she knows that there is a plan in everything and trusts The Lord so fully and completely. Now, either I dont remember or he never told us what happened to the man as it really didnt pertain to the point but I remembered and not for the first time what my mother used to say to us, or atleast myself when my brothers and I were children. She would say, "God will not give us more than we can handle, If he is challenging you with something and you are unsure wether you can make it through think about this. What if God needs this done, what if God needs someone to do this, and what if someone else with a weeker constitution cannot. If God is challenging you it is because you are the one that can carry that burden. Now, Im not sure wether my mother accutally told me this, if I heard her say it or hell maybe I just made it up because of her constitution and resolve our whole lives.....Pretty sure she said it. Either way it stuck for fifteen to twenty years and I live by it as does my family.

 Profound.

It was just one of those days. One of those days you need to hear something and you do. One of those days where you are at a place in your life and you are going though something you just cant seem to get a hold of. Something you just cant wrap up. My biological father was never around probably for the best as his constitution was worth about as much as a 3 eyed blind man. I dont know if it was because of him that she was strong or if because she was so strong that he could be weak as all get out but either was it is what it is. Now most of my life I was bitter that I never had a father, little did I know I did. I know now I have always had a Father.

My Mother and Father taught me a lesson today and I now know I have the shoulders to bear this burden.

Just another Sunday.