No sooner had I hit ‘publish’ on yesterday’s blog, I heard my husband coming up the stairs, saying, ‘decisions, decisions’. I was very surprised as that was the title of my blog. He didn’t know I was writing on decisions. Moments before I had published it and now he was asking me if I had a few moments.
“We have a major decision to make,” he said, “and we need to pray.”
I left my desk and joined him in our bedroom. He explained the options concerning his pension. As he outlined the details, I understood that the decision we made right then would impact the rest of our lives. The monthly pension payment would last until I turned 78. Mike would be 91.
It is quite feasible for Mike, God willing, to live into his 90s. His Mom lived to 89. I could quite possibly, God willing, live to 78.
I was quite amazed that I had just written about decision making and how laying it before the Lord was so important. I had not yet told Mike about my blog.
We spoke a bit more and then we prayed. We laid it before our Provider. When I prayed, I thanked God for His faithfulness not only up to this day, but on this day as well.
Somehow the blog title and content was not coincidental with Mike arriving saying we had a big decision to make.
After we had prayed, I said to him, “I’ve got something to show you. I’ve just written my blog for today.” I looked up helgavan.com on my cell phone and showed him the latest title “Decisions Decisions.”
He had come up the stairs saying those very words!
“Read it to me,” he said.
So I did. I read him the blog and we marvelled at how God synchronized my thoughts and words with Mike’s thoughts and words.
With tears in our eyes and confidence that God had pulled this together, and that the decision we were making was the right one, Mike went off to write the email.
When I’m not sure of the future, I can look back on these days and remember God’s hand of faithfulness on our lives.
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Keep the smile going.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂