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By Peggy horjus
07/25/19
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To everything there is a season we read in Ecclesiastes 3,
"a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to kill, a time to heal;
a time to break down, a time to weep,
a time to laugh, a time to mourn, a time to dance...…………..a time to keep silence, and a time to speak, although there's a lot more found in this verse In the Bible, this will do to get my point across.
It isn't clear what season we're in until God opens our eyes. In Holland we have a saying: " not until the quarter has dropped...."
Back in the day you needed a quarter to make a call in a phone booth, once the quarter dropped there was a connection, it is the same for me with all lessons the Holy Spirit teaches me, for some strange reason I see clearly when it concerns other people's lives, when it comes to my own blind spots I need spiritual intervention. The last 2+ years I had a lot of those.
We live in Edmonton officially, due to a work contract in Ontario, my hubby and I have moved away from our home, all be it temporarily, leaving behind our known life, our kids, our grand kids, it has been, to say the least, not an easy time.
I started writing a book some time ago, it had to do with:" be still and know that I am God".
All was going quite amazingly; ideas were coming to me about what being still is all about than this all happened.
As we moved far away from responsibilities, expectations, mine and others, panic struck.
Oh no, God what are You doing? What am I supposed to do here?
In the middle of nowhere?
Growing up with;" laziness is the devil's workshop" I was so lost. Everything I do, everything I did and knew how to do, suddenly it was taken all away from me. My life was clear as mud. I cried, worshipped, cried some more, this went on for months, couldn't get my bearings.
Then the loneliness. When my hubby was gone to work for the day, our dog still in Edmonton, (at the start that is, glad to say she is with us now). No transportation, my hubby had the car, mine was in Edmonton. This remote small town, Kincardine, we live in presently, along gorgeous Lake Huron, the second largest lake in the world.
I dreamed my whole life of living by a lake (sea or the ocean). This part was a gift from God. The rest, all alone all day, no commitments, surely God made a mistake here.
After many tears and God whispering to me often:" this is part of what being still is all about …" finally it was all crystal clear, not clear as mud.
The quarter fell, these days I'm spending many hours at His feet, He wiped my tears, I went from complaining about the lack of things to do to praising Him.
Thanking Him for this wonderful gift of solitary. He finished incredible healing in my heart, my dad's passing last year was very timely in all this.
No longer am I swimming in a muddy, cloudy pond, I truly see God's goodness and purpose in this new season I'm in.
God surely didn't make a mistake, I was in desperate need of this season, it was His hand that forced me gently in this place I'm in.
I wouldn't want to miss it for the world. My days have new purpose, clouds have been lifted, it truly is crystal clear.
With anticipation I wait to see what is next.
Patiently and not anxiously, He that orders my steps, He is a good God.
"Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in me will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6.

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