Post by barbiosheepgirl on Oct 9, 2017 6:29:51 GMT -6
I was on Unsealed late last night, pondering, reading, studying, shoutboxing, and afterward I got up to see if a could see a meteor. While looking up at the sky I prayed and asked the Lord if our upcoming trip is by His design to have my husband near his family during the rapture? Could the Lord indeed allow us to to make or break plans that would put us in key places near loved ones just prior. I mean, why not? I thought about this long and hard. I almost started this thread last night to ask this question to the brethren here.
Here I am at 530 am..and this is surreal..
My husband and I ranch for a living in Montana. It is nearly impossible to leave here on a whim. We just did our annual trek to Portland OR, during the weekend of the Great sign. I fretted then as I was not sure if my husband would be raptured if the Great Gathering would happen. We slept in our camper and in the Columbia gorge there is little light at night and the sky was brilliant then. I had a rapture dream with the Lord coming out from behind the moon and everything. I attributed that to having my mind constantly on the rapture.
Because of this annual trip, it is difficult for us to seriously plan seeing my husband's family on the east coast. Organizing friends to take care of our menagerie and organizing the critters themselves can be stressful, But in late August I insisted to him that we spend some time there. That we should go in October before things really get wintery here. Let's see his mom one more time (she is sick with Alzheimers) It would be a good time to go and lets go for more than a weekend. So in August we made arrangements with his dad right then and there to spend 10 days with his family in mid October..
I did not think we would even be here to go on this trip, but, here we are. We are to leave this Wednesday, the 11th. and, naturally I am looking at the last feast and fretting of our timing to go on this trip etc etc etc ...THEN THIS:
My husband decided to do a 2 day shearing job today and tomorrow right before going on this trip. He was up this morning at 430 am. Has to drive a few hours to get there. In my sleepliness I said goodbye. We are pretty well organized with the animals to be gone, so this is no big deal for him to do this...
5 am the phone rings. and, he just happens to be coming back in the house for something he forgot. I am thinking it is the sheering crew cancelling due to weather (which we had). Well, it is NOT.
It is his brother.
My husband's mom Peggy just passed away in her sleep overnight! Not really a surprise but kind of. She had been fighting Alzheimer's more seriously the past year. We were wondering when we would see her this week if she would remember Per and me. But this, her passing, is an unusual blessing of sorts. And, on the heals of my praying last night. She could have passed at the end of our trip, or after we got back, or sometime weeks later when we are in the midst of many fall ranch things preparing for winter. WOW! And then I thought, now here is a way to have his family focused on the Lord! Per's mom was an ordained minister in an Episcopal church. Yet even so I found that talking about the Bible not easy in that family. There's not much evidence of a personal relationship with Jesus with his siblings, but I was not going to dwell and HOPE they had the gospel message believed within.. Well here we are 2 days prior to leaving for what would be a carefree visit to Boston and Maine, and it will now be a funeral. However, with family and close ones reminiscing, perhaps praying, perhaps somehow the Holy Spirit will do a work there. JUST IN TIME! Is our trip more than just to see family? Is it for me to be there and remind them of the saving grace of Jesus? Is the Lord setting us all up in right places right before His Coming? JUST IN TIME...
I am sitting here in awe. You dont understand how timely this is for my husband. He hung up the phone, was saddened and shocked at the timing and relieved all at the same time. I told him the Lord is in control and allowed this, set this up as so. It is a blessing beyond blessings. Per responded, Yes this is a bizarre blessing. He knows his mom was just a shell of a person anymore. Her brain not functioning. I reminded him that her soul is up there young and healthy. He nodded. and, now, here I am wide awake again, 5 hours after my praying, sharing with you.
Asking for prayers for my husband as he drives away in the dark of the morning. Perhaps the meteor shower will put forth some falling stars that he might think of Jesus and heaven and the things I have said to him. But prayers too for all of us that we might be in the right place RIGHT BEFORE the Big Gather. Perhaps the Lord is in such control that every little detail goes unmissed. Think about where you are in the next few days. What path has He set forth for you this week that is unexplainable? ...God is Good. Oh dear Jesus, thank you! Praise your Holy Name and open the eyes of these loved ones as we gather for Peggy...In Jesus precious Name!
Here I am at 530 am..and this is surreal..
My husband and I ranch for a living in Montana. It is nearly impossible to leave here on a whim. We just did our annual trek to Portland OR, during the weekend of the Great sign. I fretted then as I was not sure if my husband would be raptured if the Great Gathering would happen. We slept in our camper and in the Columbia gorge there is little light at night and the sky was brilliant then. I had a rapture dream with the Lord coming out from behind the moon and everything. I attributed that to having my mind constantly on the rapture.
Because of this annual trip, it is difficult for us to seriously plan seeing my husband's family on the east coast. Organizing friends to take care of our menagerie and organizing the critters themselves can be stressful, But in late August I insisted to him that we spend some time there. That we should go in October before things really get wintery here. Let's see his mom one more time (she is sick with Alzheimers) It would be a good time to go and lets go for more than a weekend. So in August we made arrangements with his dad right then and there to spend 10 days with his family in mid October..
I did not think we would even be here to go on this trip, but, here we are. We are to leave this Wednesday, the 11th. and, naturally I am looking at the last feast and fretting of our timing to go on this trip etc etc etc ...THEN THIS:
My husband decided to do a 2 day shearing job today and tomorrow right before going on this trip. He was up this morning at 430 am. Has to drive a few hours to get there. In my sleepliness I said goodbye. We are pretty well organized with the animals to be gone, so this is no big deal for him to do this...
5 am the phone rings. and, he just happens to be coming back in the house for something he forgot. I am thinking it is the sheering crew cancelling due to weather (which we had). Well, it is NOT.
It is his brother.
My husband's mom Peggy just passed away in her sleep overnight! Not really a surprise but kind of. She had been fighting Alzheimer's more seriously the past year. We were wondering when we would see her this week if she would remember Per and me. But this, her passing, is an unusual blessing of sorts. And, on the heals of my praying last night. She could have passed at the end of our trip, or after we got back, or sometime weeks later when we are in the midst of many fall ranch things preparing for winter. WOW! And then I thought, now here is a way to have his family focused on the Lord! Per's mom was an ordained minister in an Episcopal church. Yet even so I found that talking about the Bible not easy in that family. There's not much evidence of a personal relationship with Jesus with his siblings, but I was not going to dwell and HOPE they had the gospel message believed within.. Well here we are 2 days prior to leaving for what would be a carefree visit to Boston and Maine, and it will now be a funeral. However, with family and close ones reminiscing, perhaps praying, perhaps somehow the Holy Spirit will do a work there. JUST IN TIME! Is our trip more than just to see family? Is it for me to be there and remind them of the saving grace of Jesus? Is the Lord setting us all up in right places right before His Coming? JUST IN TIME...
I am sitting here in awe. You dont understand how timely this is for my husband. He hung up the phone, was saddened and shocked at the timing and relieved all at the same time. I told him the Lord is in control and allowed this, set this up as so. It is a blessing beyond blessings. Per responded, Yes this is a bizarre blessing. He knows his mom was just a shell of a person anymore. Her brain not functioning. I reminded him that her soul is up there young and healthy. He nodded. and, now, here I am wide awake again, 5 hours after my praying, sharing with you.
Asking for prayers for my husband as he drives away in the dark of the morning. Perhaps the meteor shower will put forth some falling stars that he might think of Jesus and heaven and the things I have said to him. But prayers too for all of us that we might be in the right place RIGHT BEFORE the Big Gather. Perhaps the Lord is in such control that every little detail goes unmissed. Think about where you are in the next few days. What path has He set forth for you this week that is unexplainable? ...God is Good. Oh dear Jesus, thank you! Praise your Holy Name and open the eyes of these loved ones as we gather for Peggy...In Jesus precious Name!
