When I look back over my life, I cannot help but see how God’s Sovereign hand has orchestrated every tear, every heartbreak, every aspiring hope, every spark of love in my heart, every laugh of joy and every awe struck moment in which I saw a glimpse His Glory. It is that mighty hand of Sovereign Grace which has brought so many people into my life throughout this journey. Some I barely saw for an instant, some have been present throughout my lifetime and some have interwoven my life like a needle and thread on a tapestry, entering and leaving. The amazing thing is how God has used each and everyone to step by step transform and heal the brokenness within my own heart. In His Sovereignty, He allows the joys, the dreams, the loves, the hopes, the desires, the pains, the rejections and the sorrows. He knows each and every scar that I carry in the darkest crevices of my heart which weighs me down and prevents me from being able to see the magnitude of His Glory, His Love and His Joy. He knows where I am most vulnerable to Satan’s whispering lies. He knows that there are scars from this world of sin which can only be healed by a Surgeon’s knife reopening that scar and revising it with great skill. God does just that. I thank God for each and every person that God has used in my life for that purpose. Those whom unwittingly have been used to cut open those scars and those who have been there to heal them. My prayer is that God fills the heart, each and everyone, with His Joy and His peace.
God Sends You a Note
By Effie Darlene Barba
God sends you a note
Though someone else wrote
A text or a rhyme or a quote
And through what was said
A hope fills your head
As down some path you felt lead
Joy fills your heart
And flames with a spark
Like a dream, a beginning, a start
Then something goes wrong
Like some sad country song
And you feel like you just don’t belong
Then you lift up your eyes
Filled with tears toward the skies
And you ask God to please tell you why
While tears fall like rain
And your heart breaks with pain
Your sorrow no truth can explain
It had nothing to do
With the one before you
As the truth your dear heart doth pursue
God saw deep within
Saw the scars held therein
Left behind from the past where you’d been
So God sent you this oar
To help find the shore
And to force you to unlock that door
So the wound could now heal
And that burden so real
Could be crushed so that now you might feel
The release from that chain
That had caused so much strain
So, God’s joy and His Glory might reign
©2015 Effie Darlene Barba
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