This Is My Story

On many occasions when Jesus would teach the people, he chose very simple, down to earth, easily understood stories. We call them parables, yet they are earthly stories with heavenly messages.  What is your story around the recent winter storm that took Birmingham and surrounding areas by surprise? If your experience were a big test, what is your big story? What heavenly message did you glean from your story?

 This is my story, though only a small part of it.  We are interconnected, whether we want to be or not.  Being one with God makes us one with all God's people.  Into late afternoon on that Tuesday, the Family Care Center at The Guiding Light Church had three adult day care clients and 25 children in child care whose caregivers and parents had not arrived to pick them up.  We had program directors and staff who forgot about themselves and remained to serve wherever needed and to do whatever needed to be done. When a church member had been involved in an accident which totaled the car she was driving, the policeman attempted to carry her home but the road was barricaded. Unless she had another place to go, he offered to leave her at a service station.  She quickly thought and called the church on my office phone.  Our All Knowing God had me (who spent little time in my office and even less answering my office phone) in place to receive her call, and to say "we're here, come on." Only God could have orchestrated the perfect timing for her call.

The mother of a young infant left work in Lincoln around 10:00 a.m.  By late evening, her husband resigned himself to the fact that neither of them would be able to get there. We assured both of them that all was well, and the baby would be fine even though he had been given his last bottle.  By the grace of God, this determined mother arrived 12 hours later, picked up her baby and then made it safely home.

 A husband, with his son and another teen, left his job at Shades Mountain Christian School before noon coming to the church to pick up his wife.  They arrived at 2:30 a.m. after having made only one 30 minute stop.  With God's favor, nothing is impossible, no road is impassable.

"This is my story, this is my song;

Praising my Savior all the day long."

(from the hymn Blessed Assurance)