Lenten Reflection - Day 24: by Ann Shaffer

READING: John 5: 1-18

My faith story begins recently when we relocated back to Florida from Texas. Due to family situations in Florida, we really wanted to move back. We didn’t know how we were going to accomplish the move, but we prayed and asked God to help us. One big factor in the move was selling our house in Texas. I had worked one solid week cleaning the house and getting ready to show it. The morning the photographer was to be at the house turned out to be a grey rainy day and not very good conditions for taking pictures. I was a little disappointed, but kept working and continued to pray. About ten minutes before the photographer was to arrive, the clouds passed over and the biggest sunny blue sky appeared. When the photographer arrived, she commented on how she had been taking pictures all morning long in the grey overcast and it was amazing how the sky had cleared up as she was driving into our neighborhood. She took the pictures and they turned out great. Right after the photographer left, the sky clouded up again. We had a contract on the house the first day it went on the market. The whole story is too long to write about here, but the summary is that within a 3 month period, my husband and I both had new jobs, sold our house in Texas, bought a house in Florida and moved all our belongings. Everything just seemed to click and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that God answered our prayers and helped us to move. We had faith that God would answer our prayers and give us the wisdom to see his answers.

This Scripture reading shows us how Jesus did such miraculous things for people. At first the man questioned how it could be done, and then Jesus told him what to do. He followed Jesus with amazing results. How many times in our lives do we find ourselves in situations where we don’t know what to do and think that it is hopeless? God is always there for us and will help us in any situation. It requires Faith on our part to never have doubt and know that he is always there for us and will give us the answers if we would just take the time to pay attention to what he is telling us. Thanks be to God.