Introduction

I know that the Lord will defend the rights of those who are oppressed and the cause of those who are needy.

Psalm 140:12


Introduction

It is by the Grace of God that I have come to write this. It is the result of many events that have led me to this place in time. There was a time that I did not know that the Lord would defend the rights of the oppressed. I was very self-reliant, turning to God when I would become overwhelmingly miserable and then quickly turn back to my own will or the will of others giving no serious heed to the Signs that were before me. After all, I was the one in charge and I was the one who had to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders. It was my self-given job and at the time I thought it was what was expected of me, my cross to bear. God wasn’t there consistently or so I thought. It really comes down to I wasn’t there consistently.

I see now that God was there all along. I was the only thing moving and I was moving on a course in my life that landed me right in the middle of a region I did not know and into a shelter for abused women and their children. I had lost all else. God saw to it that before I finally put myself six foot under He was going to grab my shirt collar and pull me up out of the mire and the muck. He wasn’t done with me yet even though I had given Him plenty of reasons to be. He saved another of His children and truly, as I see it, just in the nick of time. 

I am ever thankful for the Grace God’s shown. I am thankful for the Blessings He has given me. He has answered prayers and offered a place of refuge that I can now turn to in the trying times that this world can still present. I am thankful for the people He has put into my life’s path. I am even coming to be thankful for those who have not been so pleasant to be around as without them I would not be the person I am today. There is Blessing even in the things I’ve seen as unpleasant for their reasons are to stretch me to a higher level of understanding, growth and being.