Acknowledging God in My Life

I wanted to start writing this because while I often reflect on what God is doing in my life, I rarely document it. I want to grow in my relationship with the Lord and I think that a step towards that is to acknowledge His presence and His hand shaping my life. So in this journal, I will be sharing some of the moments that I have realized are from God.

For example, this morning a thought came into my head that I haven't thought about in a long time. It was a question really. I love my grampa very much and his death was hard to accept, but the thought of him not going to heaven was more scary. It has been maybe a year since I have been pondering this question. My grampa never talked about God, he did take my sister and I to some different churches; maybe in his search for God ? I don't know. But God answer my question today. He gave me back a memory today as if to confirm that my grampa did come to Him. I remember when my grampa was in hospice care and there would be someone that would come to the room (religious) to meet with the people who were dying. My grampa always refused, but one day he let him in and I believe that he let God in that day too. His health did improve and they actually sent him home from hospice because he was doing so well. But God gave him time, time to be with his family and time to know God more.

I also remember the first night we were called to find out that he was very ill and most likely wouldn't make it through the night. I have never made a decision to get on a plane so quickly in my life. My family all met at the airport and went to the hospital to see him together in the middle of the night. We thought we were saying our goodbyes, but the next morning my grampa woke up and was acting like his unique self :) joking and everything. He couldn't hear us, but we wrote to him and he talked back. I sort of think that was interesting too that he lost his hearing, because I never realized that he didn't look at people directly when he talked to them (only sometimes) so he was forced to look at us :)

I think that God's plan is amazing and I am sorry that I never acknowledged that it was His hand who "stopped the clock" and allowed us to have more time with him before he passed and more importantly that he gave him time to be saved and give him a better gift than time, He gave him an eternal place in heaven, where I will see him again!! I just wanted to thank Jesus for freeing us and now letting me acknowledge all the moments and the amazing plan for my life.

Please share a story if you would of God's presence in your life. I have many more that I will be writing in my personal journal, but I just wanted to share this one :)