It’s been a little while since I’ve done 5 Minute Fridays, and I’ve missed them. If you are unaware, Five Minute Fridays are when women from all over the world write for 5 minutes on a single word. If you haven’t stop over and check it out HERE.
The word this week is STEADY.
The word steady has always been synonymous with the word reliable. Something that is steady is something I can trust.
My first instinct when I sat down to write about this word was to talk about the steadiness of God. After all, how many words that describe God represent the word steady: rock, strong tower, a large place.
And God has certainly been my steady place when times got rocky and things felt totally off balance – anything BUT steady. During those times, God has proven that He is more than reliable and faithful, and that He never leaves me or forsakes me.
But what He has been teaching me about lately is being a source of steadiness for others. When my brother died in 2015, God showed up in such a tender and personal way. He was the one thing I could cling to in those first dark days when I felt like nothing made sense and I felt like I was walking on jello.
One of the things I begged God to do was to bring good out of my brother’s death and to show that to me. God is so awesome because He answered my prayers, and one of the ways is that my own grieving process has completely changed how I view others losses and difficulties. It’s made me aware that as wonderful as God is in the midst of the storm, it’s also a good thing to offer a human hand to steady another.
It’s not that I didn’t care before, but I was busy. Aren’t we all? And I let that busyness push my good intentions out of sight and out of mind. After walking through my own loss, I can’t do that anymore. I can’t NOT see.
God, in His great mercy, gave me His hand during my own storm, and now, He’s asking me to offer my hand to others who feel battered by their own storms – not to help in my own strength, but to be the one who guides that person’s hand into the Father’s, so they too can find shelter from their storms.
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Beautiful. And sad. So sorry for your loss, but so grateful you have that Rock to keep you steady.
Thanks for stopping by Cindi! Thanks for your sympathy. It was a hard loss, but God has been so present through it all.
Visiting as your FMF neighbor. I’m always amazed how God not only brings us through the tough times of life, but uses those moments to build us up. He certainly is the master architect with an eye for detail we just often can’t see. Be steady in the Lord … in all things!
Thanks for stopping by, Joe. Yes, I’m always so thankful how God is faithful, even when I’m not! 🙂