Granny's Faith To My Faith

Going to Granny's house this week was just like everytime that I go.

I found her on the sewing machine. Imagine that.

She is sewing a quilt just like #E on my sidebar (Ambers quilt) but it has a different backing.

It is so pretty and is finished now and will soon be on my sidebar. There are always people in and out at Granny's house. She is loved. But when it was just me and her............................

She looked up at me and said, "Beth" (thats what she calls me), "I want to talk to you about something." She got off the machine and I helped her get to the couch. She said, "This morning I think my faith waivered." I asked her why she thought that. This is a woman of great faith so to hear her say this was something. She said, "Well Beth, this morning when I woke up and was trying to get up out of bed, I really had a hard time. My legs would not work. I thought today was the day. I said that verse that you gave me that is in my heart (Phil. 4:13) and it usually works but this morning I thought it was going to fail. My faith waivered." She was so serious.

It made me feel good that she wanted to share this with me but then I thought to myself, Who am I to give this great woman of faith advice. But she wanted to hear what I had to say. So I told her that I don't think her faith waivered but she just let doubt come in to her heart. I told her that I have been told my faith was like a yo yo just this very week. That is what made this conversation with Granny more amazing to me. She asked me what a yo yo was. I told her that it was a toy that is on a string that goes up and down. Then all of the sudden the conversation changed from her asking me advice but her telling me that my faith being like a yo yo was normal. She said we all feel like that sometimes and it was o.k. - I knew then what was happening. The Lord was speaking to me again through Granny. She started telling me that when we are weak HE is strong......for us. She said, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." She said that is what gets her up in the mornings when her legs don't want to go. She told me that when I feel like a yo yo just to quote that verse and go on believing. She also told me when we get discouraged we need to ask him to help our unbelief. She said sometimes we just get tired and have to have HIS help.
SNIPPETS FROM MY HEART
By the time I left I knew the Lord had been with us. Granny started out asking me for advice and was worried about her faith waivering. She needed encouragement but it ended up that I was the one that got the blessing. Do you think the Lord has a plan? It is amazing to me how when you look for HIM what you see and hear. As I was leaving Granny's house she went back to the sewing machine and I noticed this frame on the wall. Now you tell me the Lord isn't speaking to me. I just have to learn to stop, look and listen.


The Footprints Of God

In deepest sleep I dreamed
That on the beach I walked.
God was by my side each step
And quietly we talked.
Then on the sky my life was flashed;
The visions all serene.
Two sets of footprints in the sand
Were there in every scene.
But then I noticed in some scenes
Of suffering, pain and strife.....
Just a set of single footprints
At the worst times of my life.
"God, you said you'd stay by me
In good times and in bad.....
Why then did you leave me
Each time my life was sad?"
"My precious child," God answered,
"When your life had pain, I knew;
The single set of footprints

Were the times I carried you."

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1