Here's a great thought from "When your Prayers seem unanswered" by author S. Michael Wilcox
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Occasionally, answers aren't given or the the blessings we desire don't come or the trials we bear continue because there is no place in our hearts for God to put the answer we need. Life must carve or hollow out this place. The very experiences we are going through help to create these holding places. Yet He still hears our prayers and promises the resolution will come in time.
Are we allowing the place in our heart to be hollowed out for God to place the answer we long for?
I thought yesterday was a 4th watch day. Writing down the inventory of my marriage and remembering so vividly all those great times with my W and S - TORE ME UP! I begged God to make the pain end. It doesn't because I can take it. I am being refined so when my W comes back, I WILL BE READY! I will have that place in my heart carved out so God can place the answer there and I will never forget it. And my W will have the H she has deserved all this time, my S will have the father he deserves, and I will be the man I was supposed to be all this time (and knew it but hid from it.)
We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory - we are creatures of our thinking.
3/31/07 - Hit with a brick, leaving the dent there...
