His eye is on the sparrow and I know he watches me

God gave me the strength to keep on

Having grown up in a Christian family, I do not remember very many times in my life that I was not close to God. What I DO know is that throughout several tragedies if I HAD not known God I would have had every opportunity to go the wrong way. I want to share with you one life changing incident and how God was with me every step of the way. When I was 35 years old I became very sick. Every joint on my body became swollen. I had to wrap ace bandages on my knees every day to go to work to try to help with the pain and swelling. My local Dr's could not accurately make a diagnosis on me so they referred me to a Rheumatologist. You can not imagine the fear I had in my heart. At the time my daughter was 5 years old. I had no idea what the future held. To add insult to injury my husband at the time told me on the way to my Dr. visit that he wanted a divorce! Because I had been asking God to intervene in every aspect of my life suddenly my fears were lifted and God assured me that this was nothing but a stepping stone and that my daughter & I would be absolutely fine! Eventually I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis and put on some harsh medications to treat it aggressively. There were times when I was not sure how I was going to push through but the whole time God was with us. The arthritis went into remission with very few flare ups over the years. Everything in mine & my Daughter's life just fell into place so easily that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God was there with us. I have been able to provide for and raise my Daughter and she is now in Nursing school to become an R.N. I eventually re-married and my husband is the most precious loving man. He loves my Daughter as if she were his own and she loves him. Our lives could not be better and we are so blessed. Blessed beyond measure. I thank God daily for being raised in a Christian family. I pray for my ex-husband, I pray for my Daughter's future. I thank God for my husband David and for putting him in our lives. So if there is ever a time in your life that you don't think you can go on, you can ! If you trust God completely and focus on the verse Philippians 4 verse 8 "Finally brethren whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; it there be any virtue,and if there be any praise, think on these things" then you can't go wrong. Satan will try to take your focus off God by placing worry in your life but as the Bible tells us in Matthew 6:26 "look at the birds of the air;they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" God WILL take care of you.

Having gone through some of the tragedies I have in my lifetime and STILL coming out on top I have no doubt that God is with me and that he will be with me until I am in Heaven with him some day!