Dealing With Things

I've spent the last three days off-line: no blogs, no Internet, no Facebook, no e-mails. I didn't realise quite how difficult it would be living without my contact with the on-line community! However, the family certainly appreciated the extra time that I spent with them. I've started packing for the ROOTS conference next week; played a whole bunch of games with the kids; made great progress in decluttering the house. And I've certainly had something brought to my attention this weekend that I need to continue to pray about.

During an excellent prayer spot in Good Friday's meeting we were asked to write down an issue on a piece of paper and to place it at the foot of the cross. There's one particular topic that came to mind, so I wrote it down. It relates to issues I have emotionally, times when I have trouble controlling how I feel, how I react to people or to situations. It's a recurring issue I'm afraid. I scribbled it down and left it with God. And I thought no more about it. Until today.

Easter Sunday morning - the family and I went down to the meeting as usual. The meetings went well, in fact most things went well, but there were some times where I felt inadequate, completely out of my depth. I couldn't seem to say the right things, do the right things. The same old issues.

And then, just after the meeting, I caught a glance at the foot of the cross. There were the notes, still folded, with these issues we'd written down from Friday. And each one of them had a six-inch nail neatly piercing them. Including mine.

The symbolism wasn't lost on me; in fact I've been pondering that all afternoon. I realise that God doesn't forget about these issues; He deals with things.

Awesome.