I know He lives!

I'm sure you have funny little things that happen in your life, things that jog you, spur you on to action? If you do maybe you say, "well that was a coincidence", sometimes it comes as a thought and you could think "that's strange" or "where did that come from"?

Well, call me weird but I shriek out, "that's just got to be God, don't tell me He isn't alive and talking to me"!

I am going to give you such an occasion that happened only last week.

The scenario - I have to publicise the Christian ministry to which I belong, it's my job, I volunteered!
Do I know what I am doing, give me a break, I'm seventy one, by all accounts past my prime and heading towards la la land!

So I get this great idea to contact a well known song writer from my era, John Pantry, who is currently working as a DJ on a Christian radio station named Premiere and to ask him for advice. Sounds easy but I have talked about this for over a year and done diddly squat because ..... I don't know what to say, I might get laughed off the airwaves, I might be rejected, it might get me nowhere, like so many of my other efforts! It weighs on my mind like a wet rag!

Now come with me to last week, I sat down at my piano as I do of late, to play some worship songs, nothing on my mind but Jesus. It lifts me out of the clouds to another place and I love it. This had been a 'dark cloud' morning where my 'to do'list was tangled round my brain like a stray fishing net! Of course the publicity stuff was up there again taunting my peace of mind. I flipped the page and started to sing a chorus about not being ashamed or afraid and it touched the place that I was afraid to touch. I thought about the email I needed to send to the Mr Pantry and felt stronger for the appearance of those words in front of my eyes. With my hands resting on the key board I glanced up and caught the name of the song writer, you guessed it John Pantry!

I always knew God had a sense of humour and I got up with resolve to do it that very day. I did make a start but nothing looked right and so the day ended as did a couple more, busy, busy days following.

Then the story moves to the weekend when we had to drive to the office to do some electrical stuff, well not me as I am as dopey on electrical systems as I am about emails to famous people. I was driving and vehicles were pulling out in front of me, making the journey slower and slower. I was losing it slightly, a lot of puffing and blowing going on especially at a large white lorry up ahead causing all the problems. In my mind I thought, "you'll not pass that until you overtake it" and then there was a slight incline in the road and the name of the lorry rose in front of my eyes........"PREMIERE". The words came again to me - "you'll not pass that until you overtake it".
Although originally this was in reference to the traffic jam, I knew that actually this was about the email I had to write, for heavens sake what is my problem, I need to get passed this and that will only happen when I overtake the fear and head again for the open road.

You get my drift surely? Don't tell me that God does not exist, is not concerned about our very lives and the issues we face daily, squirty though they may sometimes seem. Don't tell me He is not alive and living in the moment, my moment! We miss these moments because we don't expect Him to hear our bleating, or maybe get just too wrapped up in ourselves to notice His promptings through a day.

It's Monday now, email not written yet because I am talking to you, but it is at the top of the list and I am not afraid.