You will NOT believe this!
Hey everyone!!! Well, you will NOT believe what my pastor preached on tonight!!!!
He preached about the story of the loaves and fishes (For those who don't know, Jesus had been teaching the people, they got hungry, a little boy had a few loaves of bread and a few fishes, and Jesus fed like 5000 people and filled 12 baskets with the leftover pieces of bread.) Pastor preached about how some of us are tossed aside, rejected, like those 12 baskets of crumbs, but we are STILL important, we are NOT trash, we are STILL part of the loaf! God can break us and use us to reach souls just like he did the loaves!
Then, he called two of us out specifically... another sister, and then me... pastor knew NOTHING about this situation except that mom had told me to move... knew nothing about the deadline or the thing with the picture or the wierd things mom's been doing lately to make me feel rejected....
And he specifically told me that no matter what anyone thought of me, NO MATTER WHAT MY MOM THOUGHT OF ME, I was not trash and still important! Told me that God knew where I am, even though I can't see where he wants me to go... etc.
I was overwhelmed... not at WHAT he said but just at the fact that God only could have told him the bit about my mom, he didn't know there was anything with that situation... and the fact that God told him to say that means that God cares. And today that is ALL I needed... I needed to know that God cared and was gonna get me through this. \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
I may be living in a cardboard box... but God will be there with me, and that's all that matters! :o) He reminded me of the song he brought to my mind when I was moving to Chicago:
"As I travel through this pilgrim land
There is a friend who walks with me.
Leads me safely by the sinking sand,
It is the Christ of Calvary!..."
"Jesus hold my hand,
Oh I need thee, every hour.
Through this pilgrim land,
Protect me by thy saving power..."
