WOW...The Difference a Day Makes

The titles says it all WOW The Difference a Day Makes! As I can't say that loud enough, as my day started out very early yesterday on the 13th, as I got up around 4:00 am and started the coffee pot. As I was pouring my first cup of coffee I heard the door open from down stairs and Stephanie popped around the corner telling me she hadn't slept a wink! I told her for someone who has had no sleep, she looked pretty good and then said I bet you had more sleep than you thought. Then she just asked if she could have a glass a milk, but instead I made her a hot herbal tea...called sleepy tea which is soothing and relaxes you in hopes she would go back to bed for rest.

After she finished her tea I had already started my 2ND cup of coffee and she came into the den and sat across from me, and that started a very lengthy conversation about where she was, how she felt, how she got to this point and as I tried to stay very objective I could feel God use the time to speak His words and letting her know that it's going to be alright.......and that she is a child of God.......and she had always been such a seeker of Him........and desired to know who He was. From that she looked up at me and said Steve I know that I'm a child of God.....I know that He saved me......I know that I'm a Christian.......WOW for the first time I could really see that in her face and I thought Oh God you are beginning to bring her out of this and that a new dawn is approaching and that your Word is without void......and that your timing is becoming perfected right then and there. I then asked her could I read all the blogs that I had posted and she said yes, and that was the first time she felt like listening. Her and I had a revival of emotions as I read steadily each blog and at times I could barely speak the words that both of us would just cry....for me my emotions was just being able to see the power of a MOST HIGH GOD for her an emotions to be able to cry and have tears and just weep....I can't hardly explain this it’s just really powerful and I'm not sure if my words can serve HIS Glory here justice. And sometimes between 6:00 & 6:15 she said I’m going to lay down and then about 8:30-9:00am I went down stairs to wake her as I had a full day planned as I had to head to North West Georgia for business and I wanted her to go with me.

So once we got dressed and on the road as we both also got hair cut’s we headed for a 2 hour long drive and the conversation continued and it was just such a different day from the previous day. I heard no doubts, no sighs of panic, she was pleasant with what seemed to be very little anxiety even though I know depression is still there and that she still has a ways to go but I feel that God is going to get her 100% mentally strong. My prayer now is that all can just be patient and that we can see this through over the next couple of weeks, and that we can see her return home with a new day, and that all things have passed away like a fade. She did express some emotions in hoping that when she returned home that she would be up to task as I asked her could you be ready right now to return and she said I’m so ready to see my family….I’m so ready to see them, but I know I’m not at the point to give them a 100%. I just encouraged her to be patient that we had all come too far not to see this through. That Tim, Nate, and Jake needs them but they need her at a 100% and not to return to quickly that she could revert backwards. So please continue to be in prayer for God’s perfect timing, for God’s patience in us from all sides from her family in TN, to my family in Newnan with the disruptions of our daily routine to minister to her, as we are still committed to see this through the end. Continue that on Tuesday of the coming week that the doctor is going to just know that hey I can see and hear a difference. Pray for no setbacks that she continues to move forward. Last night Stephanie was able to go to one of her dear college friends and fellow Christian sister’s home to spend the weekend and it’s was just awesome feeling to see her get in the car with a sense of restored confidence and a glimmer of the sister I’ve known from past….as sister who was always the encourager…..a sister who sought God’s strength….not her own a sister with NO DEPRESSION this is my continued prayer which is permanent healing today and forever.

To King Jesus!

Steve