From The Window

Up in Big Mama’s high-rise apartment, I recall as just a little kid, peering down at a big world. Everything was so intimidating. The people were tall – the city was moving at a fast pace. From the window I felt safe, but every other morning Big Mama’s exercise was to take my sister Mal and me down the elevator to the street (on our way to the market). It was scary being blended into that big world, but she held my hand tight. Every once in awhile I would peer over my shoulder to look for the window up high – always amazed that we had come so far. Later, after returning to the apartment, I played a game in my head. I would return to the window and say, “I was there…and there…and WAY over there.”

A call from God is a beacon to the heart…a call to go there… and there… and sometimes WAY over there. His destinies for us are exciting, but often intimidating… out of reach, demanding that we STRETCH beyond our safe windows. We travel His way because our hearts love Him, but still the unknown is scary. Only in looking back, can we realize how he strengthens us one faithful step at a time. We discover the potential in ourselves. We discover that we can always do much more and go much farther than we originally thought. Today, remember that every God-given goal is attainable. We can advance and travel to every “place” of destiny. Every impossible thing can be achieved. Every mountain can be climbed and the unimaginable realized. We can do and be anything, if we hold His hand and allow Him to hold us tight.

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Matthew 28:19-20

No matter where, no matter how far He calls us to go, we’ll arrive – if “we don’t quit.” Everything is just intimidating from the window!

We’ve Prayed For You!
Minister Wilma Walker
Religious Editor