Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Where did they go?

This past summer I was busier than I had ever been in my life! I woke up at 5am, went to work, came home, cooked and cleaned and then off to rehearsals for a musical I was a part of. Combine that with lack of sleep and I found myself tired a lot of the time. I did manage to take three blind friends to see the play I was in. I picked them up early, got them into the car, drove to the church, went to get a wheelchair for one of them, took them into the church, moved them again, got them water and helped to get them seated. Everything was perfect until the end of the play. After it was over, the woman needed me to take her to the bathroom and I had previously arranged for my husband to take them home. He agreed. I told him and the other two blind men to wait in the car until I returned with Henrietta. Kevin, Bill and Marty agreed. I finished with her and took her out to the back parking lot in her wheelchair. They were gone!! I panicked as I usually do in a case like that and called my husband's cell phone. It was turned off! Now what would I do? Could he be waiting somewhere else in another part of the parking lot or out front? After a few minutes I remembered something very important about my husband. After a show is over, his brain is gone and he can't put one more thing into it. He probably thought I was taking Henrietta home, and left with the boys to take them home. Sure enough, that is what happened. He had forgotten that I told him to wait for me. Since we have been married for 32 years and I totally trust him, I was not upset at all.....a little frazzled, but not upset. In years past, I would have been upset, but not now. We live and learn and all of our blind friends reached home safe and sound.
Someday, we will reach our Heavenly Home and we will see God's amazing Hand in all of the aspects of our lives. We will see how much we have come to trust Him after all the years we hit the panic button. We will see how beautiful was the work he was doing in us....even at the times the enemy of our souls made it seem like a cruel joke. We will see that all we ever wanted to do was love Him and serve Him, in spite of the enemy's lies and the rejection we felt from others. It will all be worth it when we see Him face to face.