OVERCOME with emotion right now, difficult as it is to see these
letters typed onto the screen of my Surface Pro. I’m so very thankful.
Having just returned from taking a very special friend,
basically an extension of my family, someone I’ve been a pastor to, and a
person we’ve become connected with; his family and our own family — a kinship. We’ve very much travelled a unique journey
together over the past nearly two years.
We’ve had such significant losses to deal with; the centrepiece of such
losses occurred on the same date — no coincidence; a God-incidence. We’ve faced the worst together, and met the
best side by side.
This very special young man goes to England, boarding his
aircraft even as I type these words, to play professional basketball in the
British Basketball League. And yet to
know his journey and the setbacks that he’s dealt with, he is a walking miracle
of God’s grace — a fine young man in any guileless person’s standard. A man of faith and character.
So, as I prayed in departures before we said goodbye I thought
nothing of emotion, until I was walking away.
Then God showed me a vision! Back
to a time two months earlier when his doubts were more certain that this
dream-come-true was actually happening. And
still, in the present moment, so thankful to God were we both, with his mother
and father and all his dear friends, for the fact that this moment had finally
arrived.
When you invest yourself in another person’s life it’s a labour
of love and you never expect anything in return. Serving is its own reward. But then when they do succeed in ways you or
they couldn’t anticipate you’re blessed in being overcome with gratitude for
what you feel for the fact of their success.
Thank you, Lord!
© 2016 Steve Wickham.
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