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Me and the Lord had a couple of days away and He showed me so much. Here's a poem I wrote about one of the things He showed me:
A life drawn with pencil
So it could be rubbed out
With only three colours
To lay on my page:
Black; dying soul, destroyed by others
Red; bleeding heart, bleeding wrist, life source dripping away
Grey; creeping sighs and mist covered everything
Black
Red
Grey
THAT
Was
Me
But…
I am no longer THAT
Colours galore, colours true
Colours fresh, colours new
A life full of colours, full of laughter
With permanent marker, for ever and after
I’m no longer bound by black, red and grey
I’m free, I’m alive, with new colours each day
As you look at my pages
My life 2D
The change in colours
Is astonishing to see
Where once there was pencil
And black, red and grey
There is now a rainbow
New day by day
The colours of life and freedom and hope
Of love and of beauty and learning to cope
Of kindnesses offered and given away
Of Light and of Mercy and new Grace everyday
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Today I came across an old notebook entitled “Things God has Done”, from 2006. I sat down and had a read and came across the following story that I had forgotten even happened!
To put it in context, I was living in the north of England, (in a place where they say “ooh it’s canny day”, a single parent of two small children, the youngest who regularly needed hospital care dues to his prematurity. I was living on benefits (and regardless of what the Daily Mail says, this is *not* much money at all!) and generally finding life rather a struggle.
My tumble dryer blew up the other day. It started smoking and stopped working. I phoned my dad (who is very good at mending things, although lived two hours away at the time) and he told me there was no point in getting someone in to fix it, it wouldn’t be worth it and I should just buy a new one. A new one was going to cost £100 and I couldn’t afford it so I had a bit of a pray and then moved on.
A few days later I was waiting for a friend to visit pushing the kids along and suddenly realised that my entire handbag had fallen off the pram and I couldn’t find it *anywhere*!! I was utterly panicked, it had my keys, purse and the rest of my meagre life in it, and it was completely lost!
Miracle Number 1 occurred in the form of my friend arriving in her car and driving me to the letting agents to get a spare key and then driving me to the key cutting shop, so that I could actually enter my own house. Without her it would have taken hours to get buses from place to place.
Miracle Number 2 occurred in the form of the honest man who found my bag and through marvellous detective skills had discovered my home telephone number and phoned me to offer to drop the bag back. I was utterly delighted, as you can imagine.
Miracle Number 3 occurred when the honest man arrived to drop off my bag and as we got talking it turned out he was a qualified electrician who had a quick look at my tumble dryer and informed me he could fix it for only £15!!! God is so so good!!