If we hadn’t gotten out early, I wouldn’t have been standing idly in the hallway.
If I hadn’t been standing idly in the hallway, I wouldn’t have seen her.
If I hadn’t have seen her, we wouldn’t have had the most unintentional intentional conversation ever.
If not for that conversation, we wouldn’t have traded numbers.
And if we hadn’t traded numbers, she wouldn’t have been able to send me this:
And if I hadn’t received that, I wouldn’t have been a recipient to a blessing from God of a morning spent with honest, loving, touching fellowship with a group of beautiful, wise, God-fearing women.
For such my heart has been longing quite a while. For the length of my walk with Christ I have never had an opportunity to just sit and share and listen and glean from older Christian women.
This morning was priceless and I’m left in awe of how God orchestrates every seemingly minute detail. And I am so thankful for the invitation that led to something for which I have been hungering and have now experienced in a very honest, open way.
This hits two points for me. One was meeting with older women, and the second is encouragement for the group that I am warily hearing God telling me to facilitate and, inadvertently but directedly, lead. These women are part of a group built on God, prayer, fellowship, and trust, and I, presented with the same eagerness and opportunity, hear God saying we younger women can grow the same if God gives hearts that are willing and desirous of that fellowship.
I’m leery, because I’m no leader. But I know what He’s calling me to, at the very least, attempt this and trust Him through it—which was the entirety of the conversation had by the group this morning. Trusting God to deliver, to facilitate, to magnetize, to gather—to orchestrate everything. Nothing is in my hands except allowing Him to use me.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget this morning and what it meant to me to experience that type of fellowship for the first time and to, again, experience God answering prayers in a very intimate way.
God, thank You for answering prayers, and I just pray You continue to lead me through this journey of becoming more like Your Son. With You, in You, there is no failure, but the overwhelming sensation of abounding joy and security.
