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Eye of the Storm

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I woke up this morning thinking about this day that two years ago was the eye of the storm, the day of nothing, sandwiched between two days of the most intensely devastating events I’ve  ever experienced.  I didn’t know it was the day of calm for it seemed as dark and tumultuous a day as I had ever known. My first thought today was to ask “who was in the most pain on this day 2 years ago?” And then in my next moment I knew.  It was my dad.  He was the one who felt the most guilt, blame and responsibility for the events that had transpired the day before.  He was isolated by his own pain and shame.  I had offered him a life line on this middle day. I had thrown it out into the water in case he was drowning and I didn’t know, although I suspected as much.  That would be why the news that would come tomorrow was not as shocking as it could have been.   I had already felt the dread in my gut.  He had pulled deeper inside his shell....
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God is pleased with me!

I know this may seems like a basic thought, but it hit me this morning between the eyes. I've been reading the book "The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life"  http://www.ccel.org/s/smith_hw/secret/secret04.htm   It's an oldy but a goody. As I read in chapter 2 last night about my role in the life of faith I was reminded to simply put my whole self on God and allow Him to do the work. The Author uses the common illustration of a lump of clay.  It cannot be anything or do anything except put itself fully in the hands of the potter. Read this quote from the book:   The lump of clay, from the moment it comes under the transforming hand of the potter, is, during each day and each hour of the process, just what the potter wants it to be at that hour or on that day, and therefore pleases him. But it is very far from being matured into the vessel he intends in the future to make it.      The little babe may be all that a babe could be, or ought to be, ...
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