Looking Back -- Grace

Today I'm looking backwards.  I almost always look forward, to the future, but today I'm taking a moment to step back and look at how the Lord has worked in my life.

He has worked marvelously.

For the past seven years, my family has been going through a really hard trial.  It was May 2009 when I became aware of this trial, and I have been praying about it since then.  

This trial was that my brother became an atheist.  He and his wife raised their children in sin for some time.  Growing up, it was hard for me, knowing that my brother didn't believe anything that I grew to love.  It was hard for me, knowing that my nephews might not be able to make the right choices because of how they had been raised.  

Last summer I had a vision that my brother returned to church...and in April of this year, he began to bring his family to Sunday school.  This week I get to help in my oldest nephew's class at Vacation Church School.  He is so eager to pray for the classes, and he told me today,

"Sometimes you just have to trust God.  It's good to trust Him."  Then he said, "When I grow up, I want to be a Sunday school teacher."

This was so, so big for me...because I have been waiting for seven years to hear him say things like that.  I still can hardly believe it.  

Our God is a God of miracles.  He is AMAZING!!!

Know that God has a plan, even for our detours.  <3

~ Grace