#2 Lemonade making 101

I believe that God never brings us to something unless it has gone through His permissive will, and everyday I submit myself to what he has in mind for me and each day He surprises me.

I felt after my step Celebrate Recovery study group closed up in May that God was calling me into a time of introspection and to begin writing, but I never knew how that would be accomplished.
Now, as I wait on Him daily for my physical strength, I am begining to see His plan unfold. The number 3 is a theme in my recovery, and it began that way 3 years ago when I got sober, got in a car accident and began my emotional healing process. Now, 3 years later, 3 things are converging once again: my unexplained chronic health problems, my son's emotional and behavioral struggles and my husband's sudden job loss. Although from the outside someone may look at this situation and wonder "why?", and I have been one of those people, but I am at peace in the midst of the storm.
It truly is well with my soul whem my body's pain levels are at a 10 and I have come to the end of my rope, God says: "My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in your weakness." And when I wake up in the middle of the night with a person on my mind to pray for and I know full well I have a very busy 11 hour workday ahead of me and all I want to do is to get a full nights rest, but I get up and journal and pray, I know that "They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength, they will mount on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint"! God has come through for me when there seems to be no way-like the old hymn says :"He will make a way..."

These are God's fingers and I have the mind and the mouth of Christ for whoever has ears, let him hear and know that God WILL work all things for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purposes. So you may ask yourself, How does this pertain to my life? It's great for you Carrie, but you gotta understand... I do, and Ive asked God to do things in me and through me that He couldn't do because I was still holding tightly to the things that were holding back His power. He alone can make my lemons into Lemonade if I choose to give them to Him.