Special time with God and prayer for kindy teacher’s husband - Wednesday 13th October 2010

Today has been a special day.  After school drop off and a few other jobs I had about 40 minutes to spend with God.  I felt inclined to go and sit and have coffee at a coffee shop right on the water’s edge in Parkdale.

I headed to Parkdale and sat quietly sensing God saying to just enjoy the quiet – no need to “do” anything.  As I got this and settled into just being with God in the moment, nothing else, I looked down and saw a little feather sitting on my lap … God is kind ... and funny too.

After sitting peacefully for a while I texted a word of encouragement to a new Christian and headed off to collect M from kindy. 

The kindy teacher had been overseas for a holiday and today was her first day back.  During this time her husband had developed double pneumonia and was hospitalised in Hungary.  They had just managed to get home at which time her husband was immediately admitted into hospital due to the infection going to his heart.

We had been praying for them since Monday when we heard the news and as I drove to kindy I had a sense that I was to pray for her with another friend from kindy that attends our church in Brighton. 

I spoke to M’s teacher who said she wanted prayer for her husband.  I waited for all the children to leave, for my friend from church to arrive to collect her son and we joined hands and started to pray.  Another Mum saw us and joined the group – there we were in the middle of the kindy holding hands and praying for M’s teacher’s husband, the new Mum praying in tongues and a beautiful sense of God enveloped us.  The other girls later said they felt electricity.  We also prayed for God’s peace to envelop and stay with M’s teacher – which she said she felt.

I offered to go to the hospital, which M’s teacher said she would like and that she would arrange with her husband.  It was a truly lovely moment – with a divinely timed appointment with the other Christian Mum who attends another Bayside church … God is so lovely in how He times these things … and boy did that Mum get fired up with the encounter and seeing how we could pray for people in public.

There is a beautiful synchronicity when walking with God, a sense of peace and calm that seems to escort us through life (as would a gentleman escort a lady to a dance).  It feels so lovely in that place that I wonder if I have somehow missed something – and I realise that it is the absence of striving … I am gently reminded that this is how life is meant to be, how we are designed to walk … in peace with a quiet sense of joy indescribable.

Thank you for reading my lovely day (so far) with God!