This is a post based on a writing challenge in a training I am part of online. The training is called Compel, it is a great venue for writers to learn and enhance their writing skills. Todays challenge is the first of a series. The question is this, “Write about one obstacle the Lord has helped you walk through.”
countless trauma
This is one of the toughest questions to start out the weeks challenge. I have had a very ‘rainbow life’ and as such the Lord has pulled me through countless obstacles. These obstacles range from childhood bullying, abuse or to my adult life full of heartache, divorce, single parenthood and most recently a near death accident only six weeks ago that has left me in some serious recovery and pain.
salvation to my nightmares
I am flabbergasted to try to put words to the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life. Not one day goes by where I do not reach out to the Lord for help. He is my best friend, my rock and the salvation to my many nightmares.
spoiled with horrible experiences
If I were to explain one obstacle it would feel as though I am minimizing the remaining multitude. I have lived through so many traumas and life events, only to be more suited to help others who are experiencing crisis in their own lives. God’s light shines so brightly through me that sometimes I feel spoiled to be able to empathize so well with His hurting people. It seems as though God has gifted me these wonderfully horrible experiences to Glorify Him through me.
choose to let God work in you
Can one woman go through everything? NO! But God can use us and our obstacles to help others if we CHOOSE to let Him. This is probably a more accurate obstacle to discuss in my life than the tangible incidents. I look back sometimes and I see that bitter, hurt, sad and miserable young woman. I was the ‘victim’ and I let others know. Even though God had been my rock through the trauma, I didn’t allow God to work fully in me. I held on to the pain. I wanted to stay angry.
why not you?
Then it happened. I remember the progression the Lord did in my life. He spoke into my heart as if He was audibly shouting in my ears. He said: “It is not ‘Why you Jessica?’ It is that I chose YOU! You need to ask yourself WHY NOT YOU? I am telling you, Jessica…You are just the girl for the job.”
So, with that conversation blowing up in my heart, it was instant. The Lord took away my anger. He took away my victim mentality and He gave me life! Every time I hear a story of a woman going through agony, I am there to shine His love.
I now say THANK YOU for the crazy, unreal events in my life. Buckle up satan, it only Glorifies my God more!
