Greetings My Friend,
Recently I have been thinking about the long journey to where my faith is today. As I was sharing my thoughts with Junior, he fussed at me that if I would have listened to God and stop worshiping my children 18 years ago, life would have been better. I had much the same problem as I went through Divorce Recovery and Single Point, people felt I should be further along than I was. The thing I love about Junior is when I tell him to stop he does. God had finally laid on my heart that I was doing fairly well with my faith growth. God also revealed to me that sometimes those tiny steps we take are hard for others to recall in their own faith journey, how long it took them to get to where there right now. I told Junior when God told me to quit worshiping my children, when I was not counseling newly divorced people in Single point, I was a newly divorced women and just starting out in my faith journey. He understood. Fast forward to today, my friend Brenda has been a challenge to love. She has major mental health issues, physical issues along with she is dealing with cancer. I have been Brenda's friend but have felt clueless, frustrated the whole nine yards. This past week, Brenda spent the night with us, was in one of her very gloom and doom moods and with my Parkinson's I found myself very anxious to the point I had spasms, my hand tremors were more pronounced. Ironically Brenda cooled down, came back to spend the night with us and attended a health fair. At the fair she ran into a mental health person who told Brenda her medication was all wrong for her mental health issue. As she told me this I realized that she has been doing the best she could on her faith journey and her tiny steps she was taking were not seen by me, others. She is working very hard and I finally understood how difficult it is for others to grasp the tiny step process to develop our faith. May God bless you and keep you. Love Janet
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