Encouraging Others With Christ

Well, the phone rang this morning and it was yet another person who is walking a similar path as I had with a brain aneurysm rupturing. They learned of me through a friend and the incredible Caring Bridge site that was set up for me last year. God continues to use this story to help others and that makes it even a better memory for me as well. Only the Lord can take such an awful illness and bring it full circle to perfection.


Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert

Life is a steep climb, and it does the heart good to have somebody “call back” and cheerily beckon us on up the high hill. We are all climbers together and we must help one another. This mountain climbing is serious business, but glorious. It takes strength and steady step to find the summits. The outlook widens with the altitude. If anyone among us has found anything worth while, we ought to “call back.”

If you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back—‘Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track; And if, perchance, Faith’s light is dim, because the oil is low, Your call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go.

Call back, and tell me that He went with you into the storm; Call back, and say He kept you when the forest’s roots where torn; That, when the heavens thunder and the earthquake shook the hill, He bore you up and held you where the very air was still.
Oh, friend, call back, and tell me for I cannot see your face; They say it glows with triumph, and your feet bound in the race; But there are mists between us and my spirit eyes are dim, And I cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him.

But if you’ll say He heard you when your prayer was but a cry, And if you’ll say He saw you through the night’s sin-darkened sky—If you have gone a little way ahead, oh, friend, call back—‘Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 2 Corinthians 3-4

So, as I "Call Back" to many of my friends and family.........I have gone ahead of many of you and walked a really hard journey and I can say, "It is good ahead no matter what lies ahead". I hope this is encouraging to anyone who reads this. Focus up.........not on your circumstances!

Love,

Lisa