Please Pay Attention to the One Behind the Curtain!

Today has been a wonderful day! The first WONDERFUL day I have had in quite a long time...or was it the first WONDERFUL day that I have noticed?

The past few days have been unusual. Things have happened that have been difficult to explain in normal, regular terms. I think that is because these events were not really normal, regular things. I have felt a little of the supernatural direction in my life, and to be honest, it has made all the difference! It has returned my heart to an attitude of Thanksgiving.

It seems that there is someone who does care how I feel and knows exactly what is going on in my head and heart. God, the Creator of the Universe, has touched me in some personal ways. He has sent people my way who have known just what I needed to hear.

I met someone by accident on Facebook, actually, through a mistaken friend request. I thought she was another person by that name. I quickly sent off a letter apologizing and explaining what happened. She was so gracioius, and she said she was glad to have another friend. She also made a funny remark about how she knows what it is to be over 35 and confused, or something like that.

To make a long story short, this person has shared a devotional book with me that has helped me tremendously with some things I have been going through. She has shared some personal experience that put my mind at ease over a particularly stressful thing I was worried about to the point of total distraction. I had just prayed for Help, realizing that I can't muster it up. I can't "believe" for it, or whatever it is people think you have to do. I just had to ASK for HELP to make it through some things I was experiencing. My help came in the form of this touch from someone who God sent to Help me. It was amazing to hear some of the "battles" that she shared with me that we both fight. There was no way this was an accident. It was supernatural, and, being of the over-25 crowd, I have lived long enough to know Who was touching me. I've felt it before.

It just seems lately, I haven't felt it so much. I've had a lot of things to deal with, and it seems I might not have been listening for that still small Voice in my circumstances like I used to do. I really didn't act like someone who knew there was an entity behind the curtain who was orchestrating everything and loved me. He LOVES me. I know that, but the past few days, as He has reached down into my little, silly world, I have seen HIM moving behind the curtain.

This book she mailed me just out of the goodness of her heart, is called "31 Days of Praise." It is written by Ruth Myers. It is a tiny book, and I have only been as far as Day 1!. Through the Introduction and Day 1 meditation, I have already sensed the awesome power of this book. I see why she sent it to me. However, after a heart-felt email she sent last night, I understand more why she felt so strongly about the book. I understood where she had been, her human struggles and how God had touched her. This book deals with Thanksgiving and Praise amidst whatever you are going through, and expecting God's Care and Loving kindness in your life. One thing I am thankful for is that she listened to the One behind the curtain.

Today, basking in the bright sunlight of God's Care, I kept sensing a desire to go to see a relative in the Nursing Home. I had made an obligatory visit last week, and I really wasn't planning to go today. I could get nothing else done, so I decided to just go. When I got there with a little McDonald's Hamburger, she informed me that she had forgotten her birthday was today until she had gotten a card from my dear Mother, who never forgets anyone's birthday. (Of course, she had forgotten to tell me!) But, God had not forgotten this dear lady's birthday either, and He sent me. I am SO glad I was listening. I don't think I would have been listening so intently to the supernatural direction of God, if I hadn't been recently touched by God through this dear Internet Friend and her book about God's direction and care. So, I got to see how it worked from the other side, today, too!

I was signing my emails to this dear, generous lady who I met, "Your Accidental Friend, Barbie." I now sign them, "Your Providential Friend, Barbie."