Hallelujah, I'm Home!
It has been about seven months since I have been in my church to worship. It was Palm Sunday and raining, but that didn’t matter. I entered the side door of the sanctuary and began greeting people. Praise God, face to face I could hear! I kept thinking, “I designed you to need Me moment by moment.” For some reason, I kept remembering that verse. “I can meet every one of your needs,” as God was bringing in my ear. But for some reason, I wanted to grab something and run down the aisle saying, “Hallelujah, I’m home. My Lord and I can hear, such a fabulous gift I received from You.” But I controlled myself, walked slowly to the front of the sanctuary, and found my seat beside my youngest daughter and her family.
Sitting there looking up at the stained glass window, I saw Jesus holding the lamb, and I remembered feeling like that lamb many times over the past months. But today I was a sheep standing alongside Jesus. What a wonderful feeling that was! Again inside me I wanted to stand up and talk to everybody. But once more I held back, knowing that God would give me the time to see and talk to everyone. Right now in this place, I needed to worship God - something I so badly wanted to do, over the last few months.
One of the things I couldn’t stop thinking about was the love I felt from the people in this church, how they cared and stayed alongside me during this process of learning to hear. If I said thank you once, twice, three times over and over again in my head, now how exciting I was here; I could see everyone and thank them face-to-face. So if I missed your face on that Palm Sunday and I didn’t get to say thank you to you, (thank you from the bottom of my heart for loving, praying, and just downright caring for me while I was away). I learned many things while healing at home, but the one thing I wish to share with you is this little practice I do every day, I simply say, “I trust You, Jesus.” It brings His face right to mind, it gives me comfort, it reminds me of His guidance for my life. So when you’re down and you don’t know where to turn, try this little saying, “I trust You, Jesus.”
God bless you, Mary Newell