Hello it’s me again - LJ
Today: When tragedy happens…
It came as a complete shock, my younger brother died in a horrible car accident back home, and we just buried him last night (at the time that I write this).
Now for you to understand all kinds of dynamics that began to play a part here I need to just take you back to my early / first stage in life.
I am tempted to call it my pre-God-life walk, but as I am to show you in a little while, there is no such thing as pre-God….
In the early 70’s I came to The Netherlands to go and live with 2 twin sisters that would be legal guardians over me and my sister that is 2 years ahead of me. These lovely ladies would become my (and my sisters) Mom’s in EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD! So bear with me now, if I am talking about My Mom’s then I am referring to them. Off course I also have a birth mother that put me into this world and allowed me to go to the Netherlands to live there and have all kinds of opportunities she never had. I am eternally grateful for this.
OK back to the story, so needless to say that my sister and I did not grew up with our other siblings and therefore the bond has always been a bit strange. We know we are part of them, but there is a physical and emotional distance. For them back home we were the “ones that belong to them, but don’t associate with them”, you feel the difference here? This also means we did not grew up and got involved or understand all the family dynamics and issues that are typical for this particular family.
The thing is that God intended families to be a physical example of His spiritual one! Oh how we mess it up down here on earth... If you think you are the only one in a bit weird family, ha-ha join the club you are not the only one. We ALL have our issues, some more than others!
While I was in church praying and worshiping (these things go with me hand in hand), all of a sudden I saw a man lying on the ground everywhere was black around him and I heard the word accident. Immediately I was startled and was wondering who this can be. I began to pray and cancel every death / accident / calamity on my kids and my sister and her children and grandchildren.
Now I believe my prayers when I pray, because the bible says Matthew 7:7 Ask, and is shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you… Psalms 89:34 My covenant will I not beak, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. (If these 2 scriptures alone would be ENGRAVED into your heart ALL things would become possible to you!)
As a human being you want to see results immediately and know what and how…. So getting home and seeing my son (me not calling him right then and there in church, was my act of faith, to show God I trust HIM!), I had peace and kept on praying still making sure I did my part! Later on I learned that my mother (just like me) had had strange dreams leading up till that day and my sister had a notion/awareness that someone was going to die, not knowing whom.
In an earthly family just like the Divine Family, we are connected to one another and God allows us to be informed about these things, to prepare us ahead of time, but mostly to ensure us that HE IS ALWAYS THERE WITH US AND HAS NEVER LEFT US, HE WALKS WITH US EVEN IF WE DON’T THINK SO, UNDERSTAND OR PERCEIVE IT!
So when I finally received the app messages from my sister in Suriname, I shouted and finally understood whom I had seen while praying.
Then all kinds of emotions that began to flood, love, horror on the how, and in this case, questions because some things just didn’t add up, what was the police doing, why people will be filming his body extensively on social media, no respect for those who he left behind… etc…. Anger, loss no more time for him to set the record straight …. And the biggest question of all DID HE MAKE JESUS THE LORD OF HIS LIVE IN TIME? What went through him as he smashed into another car, guardrail and electricity pole…
My sister in Suriname who gave me the news is 1 of 6 girls and we now have still 2 brothers left, is a prayer worrier, spirit filled Child of God! So I was able to draw even closer to her, be reunited with other members of the family and even my eldest sister who live right in the same city as I am, but for some reason I just don’t visit but have actually very fond memories and unfortunately some bad memories of. Don’t we all? were all together once again! Awesome!
Immediately I begin to perceive the healing that God is beginning to bring into the family. Because this whole journey I have been on in the last couple of years and now has finally resulted in me beginning my blog to encourage others and give them some understanding on how a God-Life Walk looks like, has fallen into place. So if you feel that these “insider stories” are helpful, please share this blog with anyone you might think of that could benefit from this and/or subscribe here to our mailing list and, we will sent you a notification when a new post arrives.
God loves us and like His Divine Family is ONE, so does he want us to be one and bear with one another, learn to know which battles to fight, which comments just to ignore, understanding about our history and ultimately BE ONE FAMILY!
The service was live streamed on our request. The family all chipped in to pay for all of the arrangements, me and all the other siblings have been talking to one and other again, buried hatches, grew in understanding how to handle one and other and are willing to move forward.
Because when tragedy happens all that matters is LOVE, FAITH and A GOD-LIFE WALK! It is a great joy seeing how HE walks with all of us according to our own understanding even when (we don’t want to or cannot see Him), and knowing that we can be drawing from Him and we are now seeing how HE makes everything beautiful for that is just how our GOD IS!!
GOD BLESS YOU! - LJ
