Thank you so much for your kindness and encouragement.
It makes me realise once again what lovely people come to CAF.
It’s really lovely of you each, because one tries, but most of the time one doesn’t really know…even if one is actually being a nuisance. I’ve had complaints from two people in the time I’ve been in CAF. I feel some surprise in what you posted, though sometimes people say things. They did both later change their position, but it does cause one to feel tentative at times. Some of my prayers do already exist, Twosweet girls. Iof the prayers I post are from my journal, ’ a handful of wildflowers’. Sometimes when I’m praying for others, or there is a problem, I remember a particular prayer. The truth is that you posts are reassuring, because I guess we all sometimes need something like the following scripture. I have sometimes lately, so thank you very much.
“I was thinking: ‘I have toiled in vain, I have exhausted myself for nothing.’
And all the while my cause was with God, my reward with my God.” [Isaiah 49:3-4]
And this morning I opened my bible and the scripture my eyes fell on was Isaiah 54, 6-10regarding the love of God when really it feels like everything is endless struggle, in particular verses 6-7
"I did forsake you for a brief moment,
but with great love will I take you back."
And then your thread, Twosweetgirls, and your posts, Mary Gail, Tim, and Monica.
Actually, you have created an opportunity to share those Isaiah scriptures, which may reassure others too
Isaiah is a wonderful resource for encouragement, as with the following scriptures also
**“I have dispelled your faults like a cloud
your sins like a mist
Come back to me, for I have redeemed you.” **[Isaiah 44:22]
“No need to recall the past,
no need to think about what was before.
See I am doing a new deed,
even now, it comes to light; can you not see it?
Yes, I am making a road in the wilderness,
paths in the wild.” [Isaiah 43:18-19]
**“For I, … your God,
I am holding you by the right hand;
I tell you, do not be afraid, I will help you.
Do not be afraid…poor worm…
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.” **[Isaiah 41:13-14]
“Listen to me…you who have been carried since birth,
whom I have carried since the time you were born.
In your old age, I shall still be the same,
when your hair is grey, I shall support you.
I have already done so, I have carried you’
I shall still support and deliver you.” [Isaiah 46:3-4]
Maybe someone needed to hear those scriptures today.
But do you know what you have actually done by your thread and posts. You’ve actually shown how exquisitely beautiful and generous your own hearts and minds are.
Won’t it be delightful when we each meet in heaven!
Love, Trishie
