Unknown Ways

Scriptures: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.” (Isaiah 55:8)

AFTER my father's death, my mother became seriously ill. She had dialysis treatments three times a week. Over time, other serious diseases appeared and her health became very bad. Five years later, after a long struggle, my mother died because of cancer.

During that time I wondered what the source of her power was. She didn't seem to accept my Christian witness, and I did not see her as a person of faith. However, a month before her death, she allowed me to pray with her and accepted Jesus as her own savior. I did not know what was in her mind and heart before this time, but I was grateful to witness her response to God's grace in the very last moment of her life.

Later I discovered in her things these words written on a piece of paper: It's hard and very scary to take the last way alone. I will fall and rise. I will be lost and revive again. But always with You - Thank you, Lord!
Then I realized that God had already prepared her for the last and most important fight in her life, even though it had not been apparent to me. Once again I was convinced that God's ways are often unknown to us indeed.

(From Upper Room Daily Devotion, Nov. 2, 2007 – by Daniel Topalski, Pleven, Bulgaria)

Prayer Requests:
The people I love

Prayer:
Loving God, help us to share our faith with those we meet. Help us to realize that you work in many ways beyond our witness to draw others to you. We entrust to you those we love. Amen.