It is so great to be with you all again and just wanted to share something meaningful in my life from yesterday.
It began the night before when I received a “to do list” for a project I am currently working on.
I glanced through it and since it was late Wednesday evening I decided to tackle it Thursday morning.
I needed to find files in cabinets that had been stored in our current garage and more files I had just picked up in several boxes from my cousins stored since 2009.
I couldn't sleep so I got up and brought three boxes from my office and plopped them on my bed.
I looked quickly through and was happy to find several folders which contained teaching materials I thought had been lost. But it was really late in the evening and I repacked the things to go through more thoroughly in the morning.
To my surprise and delight, I found more teaching units and songs I had used years ago when teaching elementary school. I wish I had followed through and published them then. Instead, we had a family crisis and ended up selling our home and many friends helped pack. That office had been organized but the people that helped just dumped files in boxes and said I could go through at a later time.
That was 2009 and I went from a 4200 sq foot home to a 5x 7 storage.
I moved nine times until 2016 and again when my husband needed a downstairs bedroom because of several strokes. It was Drs. orders. He then went into hospice in a few months
He graduated about a year and a half later.
All that to say I thought I knew where some of the materials were but not sure, and just slowly had begun going through the garage to try to finally dispose of more things and bring some order out of the chaos.
I'm looking back to Thursday morning and the continuing adventure. I just found a text and picture I sent my younger son saying there was quite a problem. The top drawer had been damaged like a a deep V indentation and the bottom of the drawer was extending over the lower drawer so that neither opened. I went and got my hammer from the Kitchen. LOL it says “MOM” in big letters so no one will mistake it. Now, for what it do with it.
I did think about hitting the file cabinet until something broke apart, then changed my mind to a more practical procedure. I tried to jimmy rig the other side of the hammer into the drawer handle and wedge it open, but I was not strong enough. I tried to do it on the bottom handle like a crowbar as well. No luck. You have to realize the file cabinets were sitting about three and a half feet up in the air. I thought of getting a ladder, but the one in the the garage was a little flimsy and I decided I did not want to take a chance by myself.Thoughts swirled around my mind.
Then the Holy Spirit spoke to me in my heart and told me what to do. I did
and Praise God the top drawer opened. I took a picture. I still could not get the bottom drawer opened.
I went back to the top drawer and prayed the Lord would speak to me through one of the files, any file.
I cautiously put my hand in and carefully yanked out a file. To my surprise it was another concerto unfinished. But the name..........
Written on the top of the printed music was indeed the name “Be Still!” I smiled a big smile. Then remembering the scripture the name was taken from: Be still and know that I am God out of Ps. 46 and I did with the peace of the Lord flooding my heart. At that same time many scriptures flooded my mind about not being anxious or afraid Zephyr 3:17-19 also came loud and clear.....The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty. You will be quieted in His love, He will joy over you with singing. Certainly I can trust Him with all the files still missing and for the details yet forthcoming. :)
Today the process continued. Files A and B were not coming out. But through some persistent wiggling and jiggling they finally were removed. The rest of the process was easier. The lesson was beautiful. Be still and know that I am God. That encompass everything. He is our all in all.
At that same time many scriptures flooded my mind about not being anxious or afraid Zeph 3:17-19
