This morning as I contemplated my prayer life, I realized that 2 decades-long-standing matters of prayer for me have been the cause of pro-life and renewal in The UMC … Both of those prayer matters have broadened and matured into larger prayer foci for me. This morning the two merged in something that occurred to me as I prayed and I wrote about it elsewhere. I had commented about an article by an African Bishop about the delay in the UMC split. My comment was, “Instead of birthing fraternal twins ( or more offspring) what the episcopacy is doing by stalling and thwarting the split feels more like an attempted late term abortion to save the “parent.” What else would one expect from such pro-abortion leaning leadership that considers only its own viability and not that of its offspring, as well?”
I was in the process of expanding on the thought here in another venue when my phone battery died. I had been about to preface my post with a caution that it might be too politically charged, triggering some. As soon as the phone battery died I knew the post was gone and I heard ringing in my mind the Beatles song, “Let it be, let it be, let it be, O let it be… There will be an answer, let it be. 🎶🎶❤️” I have already seen numerous answers to both prayer efforts over the 30+ years they have occupied a place in my heart. And God has reassured me numerous times that He’s got this. In my passion and impatience I have often gotten ahead of God. But I’ve learned through the years to read circumstances better and when God says in them, “Be quiet, Child. I will do this. You are simply to pray,” I know I’ve done all I was to do. This morning as I walked down my stairs to the kitchen singing, “Let it be 🎶🎶…” to plug in my phone, I stepped in the kitchen for a glass of water. One of 3 small magnets had found its way to the floor. I had purchased a hand full of them, made by a friend, at Christmas and had given away all but 3. Each has a small word of encouragement on it. As I picked up the rogue magnet, I placed the 3 scattered individual remaining magnets together in a row at the top of the refrigerator and saw this appear: “You Matter,””You Are Enough,” “Keep Fighting.” I knew in my heart that my years of prayer, prayer walks, prayer vigils, appeals to others, advocacy in attempting to speak truth to power, and even my passion had been God-guided. I am not done. But I am somewhat more constrained by knowing God has got this!! All of it. Everything. All things.
He is present.
He is sovereign.
He is Good.
He cares immensely for each one of us.