Life has been really busy lately! It hasn’t been a “bad” busy - just busy, with little time for simple pleasures like writing. My schedule just became abruptly less busy, and while the circumstances of my newfound freedom have left me reeling, I am thankful to have time again to put some thoughts into written words.
To say the past week has been a hard one would be a bit of an understatement. In the history of hard weeks, we’ve had a few others like this one. But the hard season that you’re in always tends to be the most painful. The wounds are fresh and raw. So a change of scenery seemed to be in order.
Throughout this past week or so, the phrase with which I’ve encouraged myself and my husband has been short and simple - “God knows.” This has brought a little peace as we’ve considered a situation where we were misjudged, mistreated, and wounded. God knows. God knows where there has been dishonesty. God knows the who, what, where, and how. And He is big enough to handle it. That’s how I WAS applying the phrase…
But with new eyes I’m understanding that’s not all that God knows. God knew that this was going to be a hard week. And while I’m not so self-absorbed as to believe that God has scheduled everyone’s lives around my needs, I am still in awe of how He creates intersections at precisely the right times and places to bring encouragement.
A year ago some friends began planning their Florida vacation from Maine. They didn’t plan a vacation to see us, nor had they planned a visit to our location.
Meanwhile, some event promoter had scheduled a Toby Mac concert at EPCOT. I recently discovered that this concert would be happening and thought it would be fun to attend.
And a little over a month ago Jeff and I decided to treat ourselves to theme park passes that would make attending this concert feasible. So when life felt like it was falling apart, it seemed a good time to get out of town for a couple of days to regroup.
So that’s the backstory.
I was contacted by an old friend the other day. Our families were once close, but we haven’t seen each other in YEARS. They happened to be visiting Florida, and, thanks to our freed-up schedule, Jeff and I happened to be planning our getaway to a neighborhood close to where our friends were staying (several hours away from our home). And so we began to formulate a plan to meet up.
During a break in a rainy evening, we sat outside and reconnected over coffee. It was such a time of encouragement and refreshing. And as we shared joys and hurts, I repeated that phrase that has become my theme song for this season - God knows.
And I was fully overwhelmed at the implications.
I am so grateful for a God who knows just what I need, just when I’m going to need it. He’s a God who operates outside of time and space to create an intersection - a “God-incidence” - for encouragement and healing to occur.
I didn’t ask.
He just did it.
He knew.
I am blessed.
…Just a thought…
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