Isaiah 54:5 and 6

I read a blog last night called God is in the Parking Spaces: A guest post by Joanne Camis Cain. She had trouble finding a parking  spot and asked God to have one open up for her and He did.

The post got me to thinking. Trials in our lives are like parking spaces. We’re often not going anywhere, during episodes of transition, thus we are parked, waiting for something to happen.

If any of you have read my earlier posts on theexileskitchen, you know that I am recently divorced. It took 18 months to go through all of the process and I have been parked.  During this time, I have had to learn to do things, handle things for the first time in my life: buying a car, preparing taxes, looking for a place to live, etc.

Being overwhelmed has often flooded my life. These were things that my exhusband had taken care of. I read a verse of Scripture about a year ago. Isaiah 54:5-6 described my situation.

‘For your Maker is your husband-

the Lord Almighty is his name-

the Holy One of Isreal is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.

The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit-

a wife who married young, only to be rejected, says your God.’

That’s me. Deserted and distressed. That’s me. Married young and was rejected. Coping with everyday life was beyond me some days.

I began to ask God to be my husband- protection, provision which should have come from the man who pledged to be my husband till death, started coming to me in mini miraculous ways. I would pray the simple prayer: “Lord, be my husband. I don’t know what to do (insert whatever situation I was coping with). You are going to have handle this for me.”

Paths were cleared. Difficult decisions were resolved. Godly men of true integrity handled some of my problems or  just simply helped me, protected me.

I praise God for working through these people and situations. His glory alone. Parked. God has been in the parking spaces. And with Him guiding me, I am ready to put it in gear and drive into my future.

(This is a homework assignment for blogging 101)