Jesus, light our way.☀️🙏🏻

 

This morning we walked to the bus stop, just the two of us, all of her worldly goods stuffed tightly into one large suitcase and two bags, one medium size, one small. Little old me, chosen by God, to accompany and lend a helping hand to this courageous exceptional lady. No place else I would rather have been. Simple abundance!

Eight months ago she landed in our town and right away we became steadfast friends. How utterly she needed rest and recovery in those early days. Today, thank God, she takes her leave of us, sunny and strong.

‘Your Government kindly allowed me to come here’, she told me a few days ago. ‘They gave me free money and a place to lay my head. I am so grateful. Now that my work permit has arrived, time has come for me to brazen up and once again step out into the unknown’. She will live with another African family (they haven’t met) in one of our big cities while tirelessly she seeks much needed employment.

She quotes Psalm 37:23: ‘The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives’. Like me, she has not a scintilla of doubt about the sure and certain fact, that beautiful Jesus walks with her every step of the way. Nothing to fear, Jesus is here!

Right this very minute, as I write, I receive a message on my phone: ‘Hi Bridget. Thank you for your love and support’💕

My reply: ‘My joy. My total privilege. God is good all the time’. 💕

I love to tell her how much she inspires me to ‘brazen up’ too, be the very best I can be, good times and bad. Every action a sacred transaction. All of us give, all of us receive. God owns everything.

‘The bread you store up belongs to the hungry. The cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked. The gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor’. (St. Basil the Great)