It is better to have Love in loss, than never to have Love at all

God showed off for me today.

In one day, he wiped away four concerns that had been hovering over our family. Two of these concerns were life altering, and the other two were teeny-tiny only-important-to-me kinda things.

So, in one day, God reminded me that He is big, and he cares about all of my stuff.

All in one day:
God chose to give me a good report from the Doctor,
let us know that my husband will not lose his job (this has been frightening, friends),
sent a call to us that a proposed car garage -operated by a man who had already mislead our township, and located next door to us - had fallen through and will not be happening,
and answer a teeny-tiny-but-important-to-me prayer about a light that had been shining in our bedroom windows.

Today, on my way home from the Doctor, I was thanking God for the relief He had given me and my precious, hardworking, wonderful husband.

Then, I passed the proposed car garage, and remembered my anger, my doubt, and mostly my frustration about it... and then, how I finally surrendered and said to God (as if He were just my back-up plan), "Well, it is up to You now. I ask that You just somehow stop this from happening. I have sent the letters. I have been to the township. Now, I cannot do another thing. Please stop this."
..... and He did.

So. My mind went to this pesky light that had been shining in our windows at night. I passed by it, slowing toward our driveway, and it was glowing brightly like a beacon. It was as if God was whispering, "Go ahead. Ask me."

To be honest, the thought had not occurred to me. Ask God to turn that light off?

So I did.

Friends, you can imagine my surprise tonight, as our family went upstairs to put the kids to bed. The light was out. For the first time in 5 weeks.

Just like that.


Maybe it is because I was born and raised an athiest, but I tend to make the mistake of always trying to prove God. It is not a conscious thing that I do, it is more like a hangup I have.

So, does all of this goodness prove that He loves me? That He is really listening? That prayer gives results?

God continues to remind me that He cannot be "proven."

So I asked myself, what was so special about these answered prayers? Good things and bad things happen to Christians and non-believers alike.

And then He told me:

"It is better to have Love in loss, than no Love at all. And,
It is better to have Love in gain, than no Love at all."

It is better to have Me, dear child;
It is better to know Me.
It is better to get to know Me more, through all of these things.

It is the knowing of Him, and His love, that makes each and every prayer lifted toward Him a blessing.
No matter the answer.