“My Kindness is all you need.
My Power is strongest when you are weak.”
2 Corinthians 12:9
For most of my adult life, I was privileged to have a front row Seat in watching God carry out
some incredibly amazing Answers to some extremely difficult Problems in my personal world.
The Problem: 1 very “lost” small-town young man + 1 very shy “PK” (Pastor’s Kid) + a large population of very troubled young people + God = People (estimate unavailable) now in the Kingdom of God.
I was the “church girl / PK (pastor’s kid)” who had known Jesus since the age of 3, when I
remember asking Jesus to “forgive me and come into my heart.” I promised to love Him forever.
Of course, at that point, my sin history was fairly brief . . .such as being mad at my little sister, sticking my tongue out behind the door at my un-seeing parent on the other side of the door, clipping an ant with my blunt-nose scissors . . . but I had a sense that those things would probably not make Jesus happy or proud of me.
When, in my mid-20’s, God brought a fairly new Believer into my life, I had never imagined
marrying a Coast Guard guy . . . a former “pot-head” with a troubled teenage past, raised a
Catholic (his church highlight was drinking the left-over wine from the Host as an altar boy.)
That was followed by years of living without any personal awareness of Who God really is, nor of God’s Love and Purpose waiting in his future.
Our unlikely Math added 3 boys to our picture, and then 1+1+1+1+1….to an un-numbered Sum, of troubled young and not-so-young people from our city and beyond, all the way to the Sahara Desert of North Africa.
Our human logic can never attain the Logic of our Creator. He by-passed all human “logic”
when He created the world . . . the heavens . . . and our own human forms designed to carry His Own Spirit in each one. He far surpassed human logic when He sent His Son to die on earth so that we could live forever with Him.
May we carry that Eternal Treasure of His “illogical Math” as we individually live out our
numbered Days. And may you be numbered in the Divine “+” to His Equation into which He has added us.
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