Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
September 26th 1996
Well I got my first real office job today. I'm still working at Glamor Shots part-time until I save up enough money to find me and Josh an apartment. I'm expecting my car to go any time now and I have no money to fix it. The mechanic keeps telling me not to put it off. It's the timing belt and if it was to break while the motor is running and breaks when the pistons are up, I would have some serious motor damage. But I didn't have much choice. I keep hearing some freaky noise in the motor but was so thankful it stopped. Well, for the moment anyway. I really like my job. It's neat even if it is only a temp job for a few weeks. I'm still learning data entry but the filing? Well it's part of the job and I need my car to run.
Well one day I thought I would drive home for lunch. I was probably about ten minutes from the apartment where I was staying with friends. Rob, my room mate will be there, but I'm not going to let him bother me. He hasn't gotten up the nerve I guess to ask me to move. Guess God is shutting his mouth for me like He did with Daniel in the Lions Den. I'll stay out of his way but he stays sick and in bed all the time these days. He and I haven't gotten along since I started back to church. But I, at this time at no where to go. Rob moved me out of the abusive marriage I was in and moved me in with himself and two other girls so I could be safe. Why did this place suddenly not seems safe any longer?
After lunch, I made my way back to the office. I was working temporary at Hickory Springs Corporate Office downtown. I had prayed and asked God to help me with my car until I could get the money to fix it and to not let anything bad happen to me that would set me back. While I was driving toward the office, my car just went dead. I thought "oh no not today". I just started this job and it would not be a good thing not coming back in after lunch on the first day. But what could I do?
I coasted down the four lanes until I came upon a side street. I was parked on the side of the road in front of a brick house with white trim that sat there on the corner. I tried to start the car but it just wouldn't turn over. I got out of the car and walked up to the brick house to use the phone to call work. I didn't have a cell phone back in 1996. Did they even have cell phones in 1996? I got out of the car and walked up the driveway to the back steps and knocked on the door. A nice middle aged woman answered the door and I told her my trouble and she seemed happy to help. She acted as if she was expecting me. People these days are hestitate about helping people, but not this day. We talked for a while and I learned she was a christian. It seemed that a lot of cars break down in front of her house and she just prays that with all the people she helps, that God will protect her and her family from danger. So far, God had kept His promise to her and kept them safe.
After talking with her for awhile, I got up and thanked her for helping me and told her I thought I had better get started walking so I could get back to work. It wasn't but a couple of blocks from where she lived and I didn't have to walk far. She looked at me and said, " You will do nothing of the sort. I have a car and I will be happy to take you to work". See the Lord was already working. I was still praying those pistons were down if my timing belt had broke.
When my shift was over, I caught a ride from one the girls I knew working with me. I called to get help in towing my car to the shop. I didn't know how I was going to pay for it, but lets first see what the damage is. A friend of mine showed up to tow my car and took a look under the hood. Ok it's now final. My worst nightmare came true. The timing belt has broken. Now what? Well first we need to get it to the shop and that we did. Illegally. I had one friend pulling my car with me in it with nothing but a chain between us and another following behind me. I didn't have the money for a tow truck and this was it. Through it all, I trusted God that nothing serious was wrong. I had prayed that since the timing belt broke that the motor would not be messed up by it.
Well it cost me bundle to fix that timing belt, but I was blessed. God had answered my prayer and the pistons were down. If they hadof been up when that timing belt broke I would have had to get some major motor work to do. I couldn't help but to see how Gods timing was so perfect. I don't want to even think about what might have happened if I had not trusted God and I had on been saved a week and the Lord was already working in my life It's remarkable how His perfect timing belt will break when the enemy is down. That way there is no major overhaul work to be done.
On September 28th 1996 the Lord asked me to send a gift to the lady that had helped me get to work that Thursday when my car broke down. I sent her a thank you note to honor and glorify my Lord for taking such good care of me. In the note I wrote, "I thank God for putting you in my path and I will continue to pray for her and her loved ones and that I would continue to trust in the Lord of Lords.
Well I got my first real office job today. I'm still working at Glamor Shots part-time until I save up enough money to find me and Josh an apartment. I'm expecting my car to go any time now and I have no money to fix it. The mechanic keeps telling me not to put it off. It's the timing belt and if it was to break while the motor is running and breaks when the pistons are up, I would have some serious motor damage. But I didn't have much choice. I keep hearing some freaky noise in the motor but was so thankful it stopped. Well, for the moment anyway. I really like my job. It's neat even if it is only a temp job for a few weeks. I'm still learning data entry but the filing? Well it's part of the job and I need my car to run.
Well one day I thought I would drive home for lunch. I was probably about ten minutes from the apartment where I was staying with friends. Rob, my room mate will be there, but I'm not going to let him bother me. He hasn't gotten up the nerve I guess to ask me to move. Guess God is shutting his mouth for me like He did with Daniel in the Lions Den. I'll stay out of his way but he stays sick and in bed all the time these days. He and I haven't gotten along since I started back to church. But I, at this time at no where to go. Rob moved me out of the abusive marriage I was in and moved me in with himself and two other girls so I could be safe. Why did this place suddenly not seems safe any longer?
After lunch, I made my way back to the office. I was working temporary at Hickory Springs Corporate Office downtown. I had prayed and asked God to help me with my car until I could get the money to fix it and to not let anything bad happen to me that would set me back. While I was driving toward the office, my car just went dead. I thought "oh no not today". I just started this job and it would not be a good thing not coming back in after lunch on the first day. But what could I do?
I coasted down the four lanes until I came upon a side street. I was parked on the side of the road in front of a brick house with white trim that sat there on the corner. I tried to start the car but it just wouldn't turn over. I got out of the car and walked up to the brick house to use the phone to call work. I didn't have a cell phone back in 1996. Did they even have cell phones in 1996? I got out of the car and walked up the driveway to the back steps and knocked on the door. A nice middle aged woman answered the door and I told her my trouble and she seemed happy to help. She acted as if she was expecting me. People these days are hestitate about helping people, but not this day. We talked for a while and I learned she was a christian. It seemed that a lot of cars break down in front of her house and she just prays that with all the people she helps, that God will protect her and her family from danger. So far, God had kept His promise to her and kept them safe.
After talking with her for awhile, I got up and thanked her for helping me and told her I thought I had better get started walking so I could get back to work. It wasn't but a couple of blocks from where she lived and I didn't have to walk far. She looked at me and said, " You will do nothing of the sort. I have a car and I will be happy to take you to work". See the Lord was already working. I was still praying those pistons were down if my timing belt had broke.
When my shift was over, I caught a ride from one the girls I knew working with me. I called to get help in towing my car to the shop. I didn't know how I was going to pay for it, but lets first see what the damage is. A friend of mine showed up to tow my car and took a look under the hood. Ok it's now final. My worst nightmare came true. The timing belt has broken. Now what? Well first we need to get it to the shop and that we did. Illegally. I had one friend pulling my car with me in it with nothing but a chain between us and another following behind me. I didn't have the money for a tow truck and this was it. Through it all, I trusted God that nothing serious was wrong. I had prayed that since the timing belt broke that the motor would not be messed up by it.
Well it cost me bundle to fix that timing belt, but I was blessed. God had answered my prayer and the pistons were down. If they hadof been up when that timing belt broke I would have had to get some major motor work to do. I couldn't help but to see how Gods timing was so perfect. I don't want to even think about what might have happened if I had not trusted God and I had on been saved a week and the Lord was already working in my life It's remarkable how His perfect timing belt will break when the enemy is down. That way there is no major overhaul work to be done.
On September 28th 1996 the Lord asked me to send a gift to the lady that had helped me get to work that Thursday when my car broke down. I sent her a thank you note to honor and glorify my Lord for taking such good care of me. In the note I wrote, "I thank God for putting you in my path and I will continue to pray for her and her loved ones and that I would continue to trust in the Lord of Lords.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Journal Entry March 1st 1997 No Time and Money
No Time and Money For Me.
Isn't it funny how upset you get when your mate, rather it be a girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife always puts other things before you? They seem to have more time for other activities and the money to do those things but not enough time and money for you. That special someone just seems to put everything in front of time spent with you .
Its funny that how we feel and see things in the world is how it is with God spiritually. He hurts and feels the very same way when his children don't seem to have the time He deserves. People don't see God as one that has feelings.He loves and that is a feeling. The Bible says that God is a jeolous God. Exodus 20:4-5 Being jealous is a feeling.
God wants His children to be happy and prosper in the their lives. That's compassion and that is a feeling. Why then do we always look at God as having feelings and not know how He feels when He has given us the same feelings, yet we disobey Him and turn away from His love and compassion.
With an everchanging world, time is of the essence. We must have instant this and instant that. Drive thru windows, microwave ovens, instant potatoes and cell phones. Everything is designed to make mans life so much easier and simple. To give man more time to do other things. You would think they would do just that. Give man more time. But man never seems to have it and can never be satified. He certainly don't give God the time God wants from us.
What the human race fails to see is how much more organized and how much more time man would have if God was in our schedules. Life would certain run smoothly, even with our trials and tribulations.
Although the christain life takes hard work and determination, it takes no skill; except the gift to have a love for an awesome God and everything else falls into place. Even people with a learning disabiltiy don't need the skill to love Jesus. They just need to know him and if they know Him, they believe and they hold on to Him.
No Jesus, No Peace. Know Jesus and Know Peace.
On Broken Wings
On Broken Wings is a story of Brokenness and courage where one has to be in order for God to begin molding us to Him. You see some of us have this idea that we must clean ourselves up and get our lives right before we feel we can give any thought of allowing God into our lives. From my personal experience, it is just an excuse not to make any kind of decision about the subject. What we fail to realize is if we rely on our way of thinking, we will never get ourselves cleaned up. We need God, because we have already proven that we can not do it on our own or it would have already been done. God wants us just the way we are with a willing heart.
We need God to pick up right where we are so he can change us to fit his purpose. He needs to be allowed to shape us from the mud we continually crawl though into the clay He needs to shape our lives.
On Broken Wings is a story of the faith and courage it has taken me, to bring a broken heart life again; to fail and bring it back to life again and how God gave me that courage to live and develop the will to accomplish positive things in my life. These are post of teachings and visions given to me through meditation and the Word of God.
These are earlier versions written in 1997-2001 and then again in 2010
I hope that you are encouraged by this experience; that if you find yourself coming from a similar background, that you will find your courage to allow God to work in your life. You cannot do it alone and you do not have to.
Ronda Hayes
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