I’m going to do a different kind of post today. I want it be interactive. So, before you read too much, I want you to prepare to type or write, whatever you are comfortable doing. Now, I’m going to pause for a minute while you write a list of the things that have happened to you in your lifetime. Go ahead. Do it, please. My list will follow below.

Sickly childhood with some emotional abuse

College and college debt

Met my future spouse on a bus and married him eight months later

Harry left for SC and I continued to teach in VA in order to fulfill my contract

I was pregnant and alone and scared

Moved to SC, the first of 25 moves with the military

One move was to Maine and I really disliked living there

Bought a house and moved to PA

No job for me in PA, so moved to MD

Life threatened by a student in MD

Moved to VA, where I taught until I retired

Got my first grandchild in 2002 and now have nine

One grandchild passed away in the womb in 2015

Retired in 2017

Four surgeries, including knee, sinuses, parathyroids and recently a paraesophageal hernia

Now, take that list that you have written and reflect on how God was with you in everything. Because whether we are aware or not, God has always been there and will always be there. Nothing happened in my life and nothing will happen that God doesn’t know about. I used to listen to Andrae Crouch a lot and I was delighted to find the following video on YouTube. It is from a Billy Graham rally “back in the day” but if you listen to the whole thing, I am certain that you will be blessed. He starts with his testimony of how he got started as a musician and then he sings a song that I haven’t thought about in many years, but God brought it to my mind this morning, very early.

“Through It All” by Andrae Crouch

May you have a blessed day and remember to count your blessings because God has been with you through everything and He is walking with you into whatever the future may hold!