My world was turned upside down…

I have developed a love of pyrography which is burning images and text onto wooden items, one time as I was thinking, now what shall I burn next, an image popped into my head. I liked what I saw and felt that this was something I could share on my face book page, this is one place i often share my personal walk with the Lord with others. I burnt this image on to a nice piece of wood and was happy with it, I felt it gave out a powerful message.

During this period of time it was becoming evident that my husband Tim was poorly, he was becoming out of breath easily, lethargic, tummy troubles, lack of appetite and losing weight. He was not a person who went to the doctors easily, it took a a few weeks for me to persuade him to attend the urgent treatment centre. At this point he was told to go to A & E immediately, within 10 mins he was placed into resus, it was a scenario I had seen on tv numerous times. He was surrounded by doctors, nurses and machines. 7 weeks later Tim had passed away with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which had spread to various organs.

My world was turned upside down to say the least.

Once I was home alone I looked at the image I had recently created and felt the Lord say I will carry you, Footprints in the sand also came to mind. The next day my dear friend messaged me giving me Psalm 23. This passage of scripture was given to me numerous times by different people in different way over the following days. I read it every day gaining understanding of its significance in my life giving me an inner peace along with this image which was placed where I could see it wherever I sat in my lounge.

It is now a few weeks down the line since his funeral, and looking back it is clear that God had shown me his grace strength and his immeasurable peace to deal with this and still is.

This was no coincidence but a God-incident that that image came to my mind, it was for me personally.