With a note of humor, I’m sharing how, this week, God truly bumped me along in life. Lately, I’ve been inundated with concern over many, whom I love dearly, facing difficult times. As you all know and experience for yourselves, it is hard and painful to be unable to make things better for family and friends caught in life’s struggles. At best, we often can only walk behind and beside loved ones going through trials and tribulations.
Early one night this week I went for my daily walk, asking God for a sign of how we can know all will get through their present struggles and continue with hope for the future. By now you all are aware that I talk directly to God, fully expecting (and more times than not, receiving) His direct answer. Believe me, on that walk God spoke loud and clear — even though I am sure He was, also, belly laughing.
My normal (or should I say abnormal) routine starts every walk going backwards for fifteen minutes. In the depths of my normal ritual and sign seeking conversation with God, He, literally, bounced me off my feet and up in the air. I landed on my bottom in the plush grass to the side of my center sidewalk path. Adding extra boot to the wisdom of His message, my left shoe was flying through the air as God miraculously cushioned my landing. Immediately, I exclaimed, “got it, God”!!!
It’s ok to lose our footing and even fall flat in life. What matters is God’s grace and love allows us to pick ourselves up and keep going — even if it is opposite the crowd, like me walking backwards. Most of all, we need to remember we, children of God, don’t walk with the sole of our shoes but with the SOUL of our HEARTS.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 