I purchased the music EP "Christmas Wonderland" by James W. Goll yesterday. I was listening to the song, "O Come All Ye Faithful." After singing he begins to speak scripture. At this point I say to myself, wait, what, I know this scripture sounded familiar to me. I looked it up in my bible. My 31 year old young man of faith son was in 2nd or 3rd grade when this happened in his young faith in his life. We moved to Vermilion, Ohio to regroup and heal from the divorce. I attended a large Pentecostal church in Ohio but part of my divorce decree was to raise the children under the Catholic faith. So this Catholic boy goes to Catechism and attends Catholic mass with his sister and their father. They both attended a private Catholic high school also. At the church I attended I became friends with a younger in age lady that played the keyboard at the local Church of the Nazarene. She was a family friend and she knew my love for worship and the percussion instruments. Her church was putting on a Christmas play and she was in charge of it. She asked me if I would work with the children in the play and teach them about percussion instruments. I was allowed to let them use my percussion instruments for this play. I agreed and had fun. My son was asked if he wanted to be in the play and he said yes. Here's the Catholic boy amongst the Nazarene children in the church. His part in the play was to memorize and speak forth Luke 2: 8-20. I worked with him and he did memorize it and did a great job in the play. His Catholic father and I beleive his future Catholic wife attended this play. As I was listening to James in this song I began to read the notes I entered into my bible margin, "This was the scripture that Christopher read when he was in the Christmas play at the Vermilion Church of the Nazarene."
This was a loving church family. My friends mom was actually the dental assistant at the local orthodontist the children went to. Pastor Dave was so kind and he was also a bus driver with the local school system too. At this church's newly built addition to the church I actually worked on a local election day in that very church for that is where the election people assigned me to work. I had a friend that attended ORU and on occasion Pastor Dave would let Dan preach there and I would attend with his family when he preached.
My daughter visited her grandmother quite a bit until circumstances changed and she cannot visit now. She would take one of the bunnies with her to visit Grandma. She would call her the bunny whisperer because this bunny would hop over to her lap and lay there and let grandma pet it as if it was a dog. When it would be time to go home and the bunny heard the carrier rattle noise this bunny would actually hop behind grandma as if she would keep the bunny from having to go home. Recently my daughter went to grandma's house to gather items to take and drop off to grandma where she currently resides. She is so thoughtful with what she packed for her grandmother. I have loving, thoughtful children. My former husband and I raised these children up the right way.
My son is the same in regard to my mother. How many grown grandchildren will take the time to pick up Nana from a hair appointment and then they go shopping and get something to eat together? It was a few days before Thanksgiving and his team was laid off/released from work. He called me to tell me about it. He told me he was at peace about this and he had savings in reserve. He was going to treat his 8 hour days as 8 hours of searching for a job. Use this time as his full time project. He also shared how he knew that 1 door closing was the opportunity for another door to open up for him. This young man has faith and he was hired by an organization the other day Praise God. So back to me being baffled why neither of these children are married. This was years ago and I was speaking with Christopher and we may have been talking about dating and things like that. I learned this lesson a long time ago when I would ask him if he was dating anyone he would respond and ask me if I was dating anyone. I learned to stop asking that question. His response to me when we had a conversation sort of shocked me. He said Mom what if I am to stay single and remain here to help others during the tribulation time. I remember responding oh honey you don't want to do that. Pretty sobering conversation, how would you have responded?
This story comes to you today all because I was listening to a song. Do you see how God works in mysterious ways? I do.
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