As I log into this site each morning I go past the previous day’s entry in order to open the page for today. In so doing I reread what I’d written yesterday. When I just minutes ago did this I stopped and just got teary. In-between our services yesterday morning I was searching for someone I needed to give a message. While doing this a man I know from our Celebrate Recovery called my name and gave me an Armor of God coin. He said to keep it as a reminder of it always being with me. He has heard my story and even had a couple of counseling sessions a year ago addressing some questions he had about his relationship with God.

As I reread yesterday’s entry I wondered if he’d read it before coming to church and gave this coin in response to it? I don’t know at this point, but what I do know is that God cares so much about what is important to me and to each of us! This Wednesday I’m giving my story to a group of people at a church in Boise, ID. When I’m doing this for a CR group I know the participants “understand”. I always feel a little more raw when I’m doing this for a “normal” group. Yet, I’ve learned that what I use to call “normal” people are simply those who haven’t opened up to their own hurts letting them be known. I hear this message privately from ones each time I do this.

I’ll be carrying this coin with me Wednesday with the reminder that God’s protection will guard off all that Satan wants to destroy or harm. I am no longer a victim of this past I share. It is God’s tool now!