I love Sundays. I love meeting with people who love me, that I love and we sit in worship to the One who gave Himself for all of us. Church was so often a painful place. I lived in a church that always reminded me that I was sinful, unable to be assured of heaven, that obedience was my entry to Heaven. Deep in my heart, I knew something was out of kilter. I'd been taught these things in my family of origin, and it was cemented at church. I always wanted to be a pleasing daughter and for sure always wanted to please God. So finding my new church, and its teachings that obedience is good, but Grace covers me is freedom. A prisoner released, paroled from a lifetime of painful "never-good-enough" lies. I love Sundays.
Today Phil said this: "God looks at us through the eyes of love." We endure the emotional rollercoaster of life, with exhilaration one day and crashing the next. But through it all God sustains us. I can feel God leading me out of the devastation of the past. God's leading to good things, to the promise land and I feel His love. One thing that has become abundantly clear in God's plan for my life is finishing school. I've wanted this for so long, and yet, had God not brought me back to Abilene, back to ACU, I'd never have finished. Not only will I go back to school in the fall, I found out I only have one more year to finish! All these 30 years I thought I had 2 more to go, not so! And from graduation with a degree in Psychology, I'll go on to graduate school and get a masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. See? from a curse to blessing. From the terrible pain of marriage of addiction and betrayal to the blessing of helping others going through the same. Victory is in Jesus!!
Deuteronomy 23:5 but (God) turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
God is good...God turns curses into blessings!
