Climbing

I’m in the middle of reading the book, “Climbing” by Rosilind Goforth. I recommend it to any Mom. It has been such an encouragement for me!!! Today once again I was impressed by the poem at the beginning of the book even more so than when I read it at first.

CALL BACK!

If you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back –
“Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track;
And if perchance, Faith’s light is dim, because the oil is low,
Your call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go.

Call back and tell me that He went with you into the storm;
Call back and say He kept you when the forest’s roots were torn;
That when the heavens thundered and the earthquake shook the hill,
He bore you up and held you where the air was still.

O friend, call back and tell me, for I cannot see your face;
They say in it glows with triumph, and your feet bound in the race;
But there are mists between us and my spirit eyes are dim,
And I cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him.

But if you’ll say He heard you when your prayer was but a cry,
And if you’ll say He saw you through the night’s sin-darkened sky –
If you have gone a little way ahead, O friend, call back –
“Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track. – Selected

This goes along with the Scripture that so boldly stood out to me yesterday that I even made it into a little song that’s just between me and the Lord right now. (Most of my singing is that way, I play guitar only good enough for the children to hear and also for the Lord and I. I’m not sure I’ll ever get beyond that . . . But when I started learning (and I feel I’m still in kindergarden) I desired to at least play songs for my children and myself. I have sung at the nursing home . . . I figure the old folks won’t mind if it’s not perfect, but I do feel embarrassed to have the nurses listen too long. And someday my children will probably be embarrassed of me . . . but until then I will sing to them. ;)
Isaiah 50:4 goes like this:

“The Lord God has given me
the tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is weary
He awakens me morning by morning,
He awakens my ear.”

I just know what a few words, from an older more experienced Mom that I look up to, did to this heart of mine! It happened last week and oh, the encouragement and boost that it gave my soul!!!

Probably what thrills my soul more than anything about Rosalind’s story is that her life has difficulties, her life is not picture perfect, she has to rely on God, she has several small children, and she is a real person who tells her story of how God was there for her! I think in heaven that will be a big part . . . each of us proclaiming aloud of how God was with us, there for us and what He did and has done for us.

That is why communions is one of my favorite services here at Kitchi, we all are given time to share what God is doing in our lives. Some are in triumphant victory, others are struggling, others have failed . . . but we get to hear and share with one another on a deep level that we don’t always take the time to or open up on a Sunday morning or a Wednesday evening. And we get to hear from everyone . . .it does get late, but it’s well worth the time!

Anyway, changing the subject, I am anxiously awaiting word from Japheth . . . They are supposedly in Chaing Mae sleeping right now. Several different things increasing my stress level have made me become impatient to hear his reassuring voice. Maybe this is just God’s way of making me more dependant on the “Rock that is higher than I” . . . So I cry out to Him . . . Japheth Jr. heard me crying this afternoon and came downstairs saying, “Mama, we’ll pray for you.” How sweet and precious little ones are!

"Surely the Lord God will help me, . . . Let him (me) trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon his (my) God." Isaiah 50:9