Special time with God and prayer for kindy teacher’s husband – Wednesday 13th October 2010
After school drop off, and a few other jobs, I had about 40 minutes to spend with God. I felt inclined to go and sit and have coffee at a coffee shop right on the water’s edge.
I headed to the coffee spot and sat quietly sensing God saying to just enjoy the quiet – no need to “do” anything. As I got this and settled into just being with God in the moment, nothing else, I looked down and saw a little feather sitting on my lap …
God is kind … and funny too … He made me smile in that moment, and even now when I recollect it, the memory makes me smile still …
After sitting peacefully for a while I texted a word of encouragement to a new Christian and headed off to collect M from kindy.
The kindy teacher had been overseas for a holiday and today was her first day back. During this time her husband had developed double pneumonia and was hospitalised in Hungary. They had just managed to get him home, at which time her husband was immediately admitted into hospital due to the infection going to his heart.
We had been praying for them since Monday, which was when we had first heard the news, and as I drove to kindy I had a sense that I was to pray for her with another friend from kindy that also attended our church.
I spoke to M’s teacher who said she wanted prayer for her husband and we waited for all the children to leave, and for my friend from church to arrive to collect her son. When we were all there we joined hands and started to pray. Another Mum saw us and joined the group … like another Christian coming out of “the closet”, so to speak. There we all were in the middle of the kindy, holding hands and praying for M’s teacher’s husband, the new Mum prayed in tongues, and a beautiful sense of God enveloped us all. The other girls later said they felt electricity as we prayed. We also prayed for God’s peace to envelop and stay with M’s teacher – which she said she felt.
I then offered to go to the hospital to pray for her husband, which M’s teacher said she would like. She said she would arrange it with her husband.
The encounter was was a truly lovely moment – with a divinely timed appointment with the other Christian Mum who attends another local church … God is so lovely in how He times these things … and boy did that Mum get fired up with the encounter and seeing how we could pray for people in public …
It was on this day that I started to feel a beautiful synchronicity happening as I walked with God. There was a sense of great peace and calm that was escorting me through life (as would a gentleman escort a lady to a dance). It felt so lovely, so peaceful, even warm … so lovely in fact that I wondered if I had somehow missed something … and it was then that I realised what was “missing” so to speak … there was an absolute absence of striving … I was, and as I write now I am gently reminded that this is how life is meant to be, how we are designed to walk … in peace with a quiet sense of joy indescribable with a God whom loves us, with a complete absence of striving, and I believe that this is the case purely because …
God is Good!