My sister reminded me about my blog, I actually had forgotten all about it. I have tons of time now to write about different things that have been going on in my life and what I have learned. But first I will give you a update to everything that has happened.
First off, Katie and I bought our home that we where in the process of doing last time I wrote, It is a beautiful and wonderful older home here in Blairsville, We both love it so much, We are still unpacking some boxes but we are pretty much moved it, and living happily. I got hurt at work, I twisted my knee and torn my ACL, I had to get surgery, and that went well, But now I am recovering from that. I can walk some what on my own, not very well unless I have my Iron Man brace on. ( lol ) If you where able to see this thing you would call it the same thing, it weigh's about 15 lbs and it goes from my hip to my foot. Any way, so we closed on our home on a Wednesday evening, On Saturday we had family and friends come help us move, which we got done in one day thanks to everyone who came and helped, we could not of done it without you. Then Tuesday came around and I went into surgery, and after that it's pretty much just been me trying to get better between PT and working on it at home, and putting some boxes away and normal life.
Everyone knows packing is stressful, and moving is stressful, and unpacking is stressful, Everyone knows this. But when you through into it, A three year old, someone who can not walk, and cold weather, it get's even worse. But thankfully God was with Katie and I through the whole process of picking the house, buying the house, moving into the house, and living in the house. It took me a long time to understand God's timing for what happened to me with my knee. I could not understand why God would let some thing like this happen to me 20 days before we bought our home. I was mad at him for a many days, and during those days things just kept getting worse, it seemed like my whole world was falling apart, so I chose to pray to God, even though I was still pretty mad at him. When I prayed to him that day, I was told why everything had happened, and then everything made so much sense. Here I am blaming God for letting me get hurt at work, and causing all of these problems, but when he showed me everything that had happened from a different point of view, it made so much sense. God showed it to me so clean, I can actually explain how it worked. Lets say that I did not twist the wrong way at work and cause all of this damage to myself, lets say everything went fine for the next 20 days and we buy our house and start to move. I pick up a box and twist the wrong way, I tear my ACL, I need to have surgery, it happened at home on my own time, 4 days before my health insurance kicked in. Now I am going to be off work, without pay, no health insurance to cover the surgery or the PT, we could not afford that, so I would op out of everything and live with it for the rest of my life. When God showed me that, I understood his timing, he made me think of how he knows the different out comes, and he is watching my life but he has the power to fast forward, and know what is coming, so he can prepare me for it. Our God is a awesome God who cares about us, Yes it sucks that I had to have knee surgery, but it could of been so much worse for us if it wasn't for God's timing and planning ahead.
What I am saying in this story, is when something does not make sense in your life and you turn to God and say "Why God?! Why Now!!!?? How could you let some thing like this happen?!" There is most likely a very good reason for all of it. It is hard not to get upset because things are not going as You planned. But trust me, if you have given your life to God, fear not, Because he has the best TiVo on the market. Trust is the Lord God, and he will guide you in the right direction.
God Bless my friends,
Eric
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Have you ever seen the movie National Treasure? If you haven't, don't read any further.
ReplyDeleteThere is a part where the "good guys" lose the Declaration of Independence. Part of you thinks, "Dang, why? If only they had been more careful. If only they had went the other way..."
The answer is, if they hadn't split up, the main character would have been caught and the DoI returned and no one would have found the treasure. The bad thing had to happen to get to the better outcome.
I think that sometimes God will use trials in our lives to lead us to the right outcome.
My husband had a daughter from a previous marriage. She passed away 13 years ago and I used to wonder...why? Why even give her to us if you were going to just take her away anyway??
We will find out one day, but I think maybe...just maybe, He did that to encourage the ones who love her to find out how to get to heaven to be with her. Maybe he knew something more horrible would happen later in her life and felt it would be better to take her at 3 years old. Maybe...
Though we can't know all the answers now, eventually we will find out and say "OOOOOHHHH I get it now!" At least we have the faith that Someone knows better and has the answers and is holding our hands along the way.