The Wait

“Twenty one year’s Dad!

You have been working on a vision which is just not going to happen

Did you get it it’s not going to happen

Stop tiring yourself out OK just let it go.”

Old Abby looked up from his work hurt in his eyes and retorted back to this son

“It’s my master who tells me what I should do and not you.

When it’s time for me to rest He will tell me.”

That night they heard a sound which jerked them out of their beds

“Why! looks like the entire village is making their way up into our house”

Exclaimed the son to the alerted household

Old Abby rushed to the door, a fresh vigour in his step

His eyes alive with excitement

“Move! He shouted to his family

Get them all down into the basement.”

They led the people who were climbing up the mountain into the basement

All eyes opened in amazement as the old man led them to a secret tunnel

Stacked with millions of war weapons against the wall

The tunnel led to a huge room which was equipped for war had everything possible that refugees may need.

It looked like old Abby knew a day will come when the entire village would come to him for protection

The men grabbed the weapons and went to save their land leaving the women and children huddled inside.

Old Abby’ son came to his father...”dad I m sorry .I didn't believe.”

“It’s ok son...that was the vision...When almighty God tells you or show you a vision you just do as He leads without questioning him even if it takes twenty one years! 

Life is Beautiful

Aaron had to leave for his workplace right after the wedding
Anna was soon to join him in a month by when her papers would get ready.
The moment he saw her again he was stunned ,
His warm and beautiful wife was cold like gravestone.
'I need to go back,' she blurted out, 'I cannot live with you ,
I am in love with another man and this marriage has to end '.
She turned around and went away just the way she came,
Without once turning back to see what happened to him.
With his head reeling with shock, he entered his dark house and crouched down on the floor
Days passed by, he neither eat or drank or responded to anybody.
'Even god cannot change my situation', he thought
So he considered ending the exploding pain in his heart with death.
Suddenly the room lit up with dazzling brightness.
The son of man stood before him placing his hand gently upon his head
Great peace and unspeakable love poured into his soul
His broken heart became whole once again.
In a flash it was all gone the room became dark again
Still in a daze he went to sleep and woke up feeling peaceful.
With a spring in his steps and joy in his heart
He went back to work and met his friends.
They knew instantly he was a changed man.
Looking at them he smiled and answered their unasked question
Life is beautiful with all its mess
If Jesus Christ is your best friend.

Just A Word From You

Martha was praying like the way she always did.

In the early hours of the day.

It was the same prayer she was praying day after day

'Just a word', she said

'Just a word from you Lord is all I want to begin my new year with.

Just a word from you, the dead arose,

The sick were healed,

The storms were calmed.

Just a word from you is all I want.

A word from the Pharaoh bought Joseph out of prison

Just that word changed his situation.

From a prisoner to the Prime Minister of the greatest of all nations.

Just a word made all the dreams you had placed in his heart come to pass

Just a word Lord just a word

Can cause tears to stop

Can cause pain to end.

Just a word Lord just a word is all we need

To give us the strength to go on'.

                

Daddy it's me, Emily

It was her turn, the nurses informed her 

To see her critically ill dad.

"Daddy it’s me, Emily,” 

She kept repeating to him over and over again. 

His loud breathing was the only answer she got, as she tried her best to revive him.

The nurse tried to comfort her as she gently walked her out of the room. 

“Don’t be depressed child, you are not alone, and we are all your family”.

 “I am not, she replied. I just wish he meets his saviour before he too is taken away from me”.

“Let’s keep praying dear that’s the only thing we can do.” nurse said gently squeezing her by the hand.

Emily nodded went into the chapel closed the door and prayed.

“Dear lord give me just one more day to hold him,

Just one more time to say I love him,

Give me the assurance I pray that it’s into your hands he is coming. 

This I pray in your holy name Amen.”

When she went to visit him next morning

She was surprised to see him awake, on seeing her he smiled weakly.

“I had a beautiful dream of heaven, I cannot wait to get there. " He said in a voice barely audible.

She hugged him tightly ”Thank you for being such an awesome dad,

I am going to miss you, Daddy”! She buried her head into his hands and cried.

Later that night she was informed he had died peacefully in his sleep.

She did not know whether to laugh or cry

Looking up heaven ward she whispered "Father God it’s me Emily...thank you for answering me!!

So I will cherish you

Diana’s much awaited departure was no where what she thought it would be.

The officials who were entrusted to take her on her  journey had arrived a day earlier.

They whisked her away into a carriage before she could protest right in the dead of the night

“I need to bid farewell to the people I love, please give me a day,” she cried.

Her pleading fell on deaf ears as they sped along the highway.

In sheer helplessness she bowed her head and said.

“Lord, please allow me to bid farewell to at least one person before I leave this town tonight, “She prayed

As they were passing the Kornhauser home she saw the light of Julian’s room still on.

“Please stop, please, let me see him before I leave”, she begged

Hearing a carriage stop by at his house,

Julian rushed towards the window and came down quickly to greet them.

She ran towards him tears streaming down her face and explained the situation she was in

“Give me a minute,” he rushed back in and came back with a small box which he thrust into her hands.

“Cherish this”; he said looking intently into her dark blue eyes.

“God willing we will meet again”. He said hugging her tightly.

She reluctantly followed him back into the carriage.

She gripped his hand tightly silently begging him not to let go.

‘You are still young you need to fulfill your god given destiny and so have I,

Let’s keep praying and trusting god to bring us back together again. “ He said, gently withdrawing his hand,

“Thank you father for answering my prayer, “she whispered, into the night sky, as she kept waving till she could see him no longer.

You know my heart’s desires much more than I do, and I believe you will grant them to me in sometime,

I am at peace now, ready to go where you want me to go and do what you want me to do.”

Having said this, she opened his gift; it was a chain with a pendant which read “so I will cherish you”!

The Old Tentmaker

Old Benjamin looked wistfully down at his hands

It was the festival season all were busy making tents.

He had lost the use of one of his hands so he could no longer join them.

"Its ages since I earned, it feels so terrible

I sure wish Adonai would have mercy on me.

It feels awful to be considered so useless." 
These were his thoughts day after day.

One day in middle of the night, 

He was woken up by a strange light,

an angel of god stood before him.

Holding out a shofar in his hand.

"This is your new role, to be the watchman on the wall," 

“Warning the people of the signs and seasons in the times to come”. he said
The angel left suddenly just the way he came.

Early morning old Benjamin was sure it was all a dream,

But he was surprised to see the shofar lying beside him in the bed.

Not sure what his new role is going to be 

He started searching the Torah

He came to 

Isaiah 62:6  (CJB)

6 I have posted watchmen
on your walls, Yerushalayim; 
they will never fall silent, 
neither by day nor by night.
You, who call on Adonai, 
give yourselves no rest;

"I have been given a divine appointment", Benjamin said to himself excitedly,

Raising the shofar he blew it so loud the entire neighborhood shook for miles on end.
people rushed out to the streets startled, wondering what was happening,

"Today is the feast of tabernacles...god himself is proclaiming it," a voice cried out  in the crowd,

 "yes ,that's what the watchman on the wall is telling us ,Lets us all go forth to the temple to worship as it is also the Day of Atonement", Rabbi called out, leading the way.

The people followed behind him like sheep after their shepherd.

Old Benjamin stood where he was and smiled.

"I have never felt this good for a long time...

adonai has entrusted me to watch out for his people, what a noble task!

AND HE COUNTED ME WORTHY TO MEET HIS MESSENGER, THANK YOU ABBA, and HE WEPT FOR JOY!"

The Dawn

It was a dark rainy day,

Donna stood staring at the window, A foreboding thought filling up her mind, 

She felt anxiety rushed into her heart growing more intense by the minute.

Tears started falling down her cheeks just like the pouring rain

"The goods can’t take this long to reach me; I think I have been robbed!” she exclaimed.

“Surely there a devil lurking around me turning my blessings into reasons for my mourning, she wailed.

"Why does this keep happening to me all the time, Shattered," she cried to God for an answer.

The Rabbi spoke to her the next day from the word about the man travelling to Jericho

Where he was robbed and looted and left to die lifeless on the road Luke 10:30

“The way to the Promised Land is strewn with thieves, “he continued “who know you carry a blessing so they are out to steal.”

"Fall on your knees and pray before your god 

 get into the fight with the sword which is the word of god,

To claim your victory and claim your prize."

Donna nodded, understanding all,

And prayed all day and all night long.

She received a word that a traveler she knew had found her goods

And was returning it to her in a day or two.

"Rabbi!” she exclaimed so joyfully,

Thank you for telling me what to do".

He put his hand out and blessed her

"The dawn of your miracle is here," Donna

"Embrace it, for it is yours from today," he replied