I wrote yesterday about how God is shedding His Light in the darkness of Kathy’s recovery from her stroke. It was an awakening I needed in trusting God with her healing. I had in my mind what her healing ought to look like and I was to keep her in therapy until the picture of her healing was completed. Then, out of the blue, her key therapist says they are done. My thought was, “WHAT! That can’t be. We are a long ways from Kathy being who she was before that day in November.” 

Yesterday in a counseling session with a gentleman, we began building a timeline of his life events which have greatly influenced his thinking and actions of today. Some of them have been addressed, but we need to uncover what is still deeply rooted in causing him to sometimes act out. He text me late last night (which I didn’t read until this morning) that he couldn’t sleep. He was recalling many events that had been buried which we will address next week. I responded to his text reminding him that God’s timing is always perfect and He is shedding His Light into darkness that has hidden what Satan wanted kept in the dark. 

As I was journaling after sending the text message, I asked Jesus what He wanted me to know from Him for today? His response truly struck me. He said, “What if my Light you spoke of to your client is the same Light I want you to see in the darkness of Kathy’s recovery? My Light is healing as you said to the client. I want you to know that this same Light is molding Kathy AND you into believers who are more like Me. Let My Light do its work.” All of a sudden the lamenting I had within me turned into hopefulness that Kathy and I are being remade. The outcome will be more useful to Christ’s work in our own relationship and in the ministries for which we serve. 

Isn’t GOD AMAZING!