Keeping a prayer journal

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I have been not the best at keeping a journal of all the things that happen to me.  I used to blog about them, but then so many things started happening to the people around me that just weren't for public consumption.  I started again earlier this year.  And then I misplaced the journal I was keeping.  I'll find it, but in the mean time, blank dated papers will have to do.

I think too, part of my reluctance stems from a period of disappointment that things didn't go the way I thought they would.  I want to pretend it wasn't, but if I'm honest with myself, I think that plays into the narrative a little bit.

Yesterday, though, I got down on my face and asked God to show me something.  He told me later in the evening, that no, He was not gonna show me or tell me, and gave me a Scripture verse to confirm that answer.  He used Billy Graham as the messenger, who just happened to be on TV for noise for a minute.    Funny, but it was just what I needed to hear.

The answers kept coming.  On my way home, the KLOVE verse of the day was Psalm 138:8 from the NLT translation.  I'd have missed it but that still, small voice said to turn up the radio.  Sometimes I turn it off to have quiet time with God.

That answer was not what I wanted to hear.  But what I needed to hear, and I'm good with that.

We watched The Shack last night, and at the end, I told the GF that things like that happen and I told her the story of going for a walk when God told me to go for a walk.

Never forget that.

And I'm also reminded that I don't always understand.

There was more to the story but right now, that more is just between me and God.  And I'm reminded again today that He's well aware........of everything.

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