JustSyai

The past two weeks in my house have been a bit hectic and the old saying when it rains it pours has never rang so true to me. It is hard to imagine that just 3 weeks ago we were on a beautiful vacation (quarantine style) spending quality time with each other and relaxing away the worries of a pandemic. Upon arriving back home from our vacation our dishwasher broke and had been leaking. We made some calls, got someone here to look at it, and tell us what the issue was but that it would take 2 weeks to get the part delivered due to Corona. Needless to say, a childhood steeped in washing dishes by hand came in handy and we began to manage the dishes to avoid overflow. Who would have known that this was the beginning of what I see now as Rain.   Just the next week, our water heater pipe burst and water was leaking again!!!! The water heater is in the attic and my husband and I had to again make some phone calls and get someone out here to fix it. This took longer than expected and ...

I was picking up my children from their after school program one day and there was a mom getting in the car next to me and I heard, "put your seatbelts on", "stop fighting", "be nice to your brother" and it made me smile. Truth be told, I was a bit happy and excited to know that I am not the only mom who says these lines up to twenty times a day! But, I could hear God saying, you are not the only one. In my spirit, I prayed to myself, THANK YOU JESUS!     Often times we think that we are the only ones dealing with our situation, that no one understands the hurt, the struggle, the pain that we are feeling. That there is no one that can truly understand what we are dealing with and the burdens that we are carrying. God brought to my remembrance the story of Elijah after he heard from Jezebel about Ahab slaying all the prophets with his sword. In his attempt to stay alive, Elijah ended up in a cave. It was there that Elijah heard the Lord's voice aski...