Forty-three years ago today I met Kathy and we had our first date. It was a blind date set up by a teacher who taught for me and her husband. This started my journaling this morning as I began to thank God for His wonderful blessing having placed Kathy in my life for all of these past 43 years. She has been the voice of God so often to me helping me see steps I needed to take and to also have the trust and courage to take them. How grateful I am for this gift of God to me.

I had intended for this above message to be my focus of the morning’s journaling. However, God had something else He wanted me to also focus on. Today is Christ’s last day to be with his disciples. It was the Last Supper and His time in the Garden of Gethsemane. It was the day when he was taken away never to return for the following day he would be crucified. Believers know this and many non-believers know this message. However, what God was pointing out to me was something He wanted me to know and do this day. He wanted me to emphasize the truth that for everyone I meet with today needs to know He did all of this for them. Each one of us is worthy of this price in spite of what we have believed about ourselves.

I brought this up to a man I was meeting with yesterday and he cried saying he really needed to hear this. The immensity of what Christ did for all of us is so critical for us to know and believe. What we so often miss is the intimacy Christ wants to have with each one of us as we accept this Gift of sacrifice He paid. The Power of the Resurrection is ours if we only believe. This Power will raise us out of the pits of our sinfulness and bondage if we will only believe as we receive. This Power is best seen and known once we open ourselves fully to Christ spending intimate time with Him and listening to His Holy Spirit speak to us through God’s Word and our prayers. This message is what God wanted me to hear this morning and to give to those I’m with this day both in counseling and in Celebrate Recovery tonight. All I can say is Thank You God for not so long ago I was one who wished all of this could be true for me.