His Light

I have to first thank Hillary from the Johnson Ferry bible study for sharing this with us today over email.  It comes at a most perfect time.  Tonight, as I was driving home from a LENGTHY, but great Corrigan Care board meeting, I was thinking about something...


My thoughts were about how I have been praying to God to lead me where His will is supposed to take me.  I keep telling Him that I want His will to be done through me.  Wednesday's MOPS meeting was also inspiring me, again, because the speakers told of stories similar to those that I've talked about here on this blog that have happened to me since Emmy passed.  These stories were about "normal" people having extremely special (some would say, coincidental) happenings in their lives.  I know that these things are God's hand in our lives.  It is not by chance that a letter gets to a man in prison written by a 7 year old girl named Alyssa that states that he is a good dad.  It is no coincidence that his daughter that passed away was 7 and named Alyssa.  It's no coincidence.


On my way home tonight, I was thinking about all that I've accomplished since May 21, 2010 when I incorporated Corrigan Care.  It's not even been a year, but I am so close to finishing my business plan (enough to submit it to my attorney) and for us to submit our 501c3 IRS application, having had a fundraising event back in August 2010 that raised (after expenses) around $4,000.  It made me think about my college years and how I struggled so much in my management class and look at me now.  I, now, really believe that I can accomplish ANYTHING if I trust in Him for guidance.  This leads me to the poem that Hillary sent me today.  


You have to allow yourself to relinquish control of your life's outcome to Him.  It's not something that you learn.  You just need to pray about it and stop trying to control so many things in your life.  As you start to step back from the helm, you will slowly start to see where he is steering you and you will start to see where he provides for you.  Just think, when life comes at you with hard times or medical problems, etc Do you really have the ultimate say in what happens, we all know that the answer is no.  Let's live our lives for Him and glorify Him.  He's our Father and let's make Him proud!


Just Enough Light (from Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On)

by Stormie Omartian

Sometimes only the step I'm on,

or the very next one ahead,

is all that is illuminated for me.

God gives just the amount of light I need

for the exact moment I need it.

At those times I walk in surrender to faith,

unable to see the future

and not fully comprehending the past.

And because it is God who has given me 

what light I have,

I know I must reject the fear and 

doubt that threaten to overtake me.

I must determine to be content where

I am, and allow God to get me where I 

need to go.

I walk forward,

one step at a time,

fully trusting that

the light God sheds

is absolutely sufficient.