"...The lad and I will go yonder and worship and we will come back to you." Genesis 22:5
April is my birthday month. Since it is on the second day, the celebration continues. I've had greetings, gifts and friends turning up all month long. It is heart-warming to be remembered over and over. I'm grateful to all of you and to God.
April is resurrection month this year. Jesus is alive! We have revisited His cross, His tomb and found Him again in the garden. As Mary heard Him speak her name long ago, I have heard Him speak mine again as we met in the garden of prayer.
This month my calendar is marked each week with a scheduled watercolor class. Through the encouragement of my daughter and my neighbor, Ellen, I have attended classes for two years with a well-known Southwest Impressionist artist, David Dyell.
At the age of 90 I picked up something I laid down over seventy years ago. Prior to my conversion at the age of 16, I dreamed of pursuing a career in art. Through the influence of my art teacher in junior high school, I won a three year scholarship to the Toledo Art Museum in my home town of Toledo, Ohio. My life was going in that direction when I became ill with a life-threatening kidney disease.
That crisis proved to be a turning point for me and my parents. In desperation, we sought help from the Lord and it changed our lives. Soon after my healing, I sensed a call from God to surrender my life to His service. Instead of attending the art course I chose to go to LIFE Bible College in Los Angeles. The rest is the story of my life in the service of the Lord.
When my art teacher, David Dyell, remarked to the class that I was his oldest student, I shared this testimony with them. David summed it up when he said "This is your 'Isaac'!
GOD REMEMBERS what we lay aside when we take up our cross to follow Him. Some things are not worth getting back, but the things He planned when we were born and born again, He is careful to restore. God sees when we love Him more than anything.
PRAYER: Lord, the years have not dimmed my vision of You.. You have my heart forever. May Your glory shine in the hearts of my children and their children eternally. Amen