Ecclesiastes 3:1-10 - God's Timing

Greetings dear and precious sisters-in-Christ, A conversation with the Lord upon awakening this morning, when death lingers on, even then I am present. I do not want to sound like I am depressed. I am not to put it in context, my mother, who has dementia and is residing in a nursing facility, has taken a turn for the worse. By that I mean her second bout of COVID she didn't bounce back like everyone thought she would. She is 92 years old and is the joy of all who work at the nursing home. In talking with them over the last couple of weeks I can hear the compassion in their voices and we even cry together at times. I have come to terms with her dying but what I have not come to terms with is God's timing. And the truth is I have wrestled with this for several years - God's timing. In conversations with friends and family whom I trust and help to encourage me and strenghten throughout all the years and in asking for prayers about difficult situations and everyday living invariably one or all will say to me, "remember it is all in God's timing." That is why I chose Ecclesistes 3:1-10 today. Let us read together, "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every even under heaven", I stopped at the first verse because that was the answer to my question that I had silently cried out to God every time someone told me - God's timing - I continued reading the other verses about time but verse 10 also caught my attention, "I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves." It was this verse that gave me the reason for the words spoken to me this morning. God is with my mom even now as she struggles through each day and since His presence is with her each nurse, each staff member, and each one who takes care of my mom is in the Presence of the Lord. I have asked the Lord to take her home, but God in His infinite mercy and abundant Grace has His Sovereign reign where time and space has no limits. I am at peace knowing that the presence of the Lord is with mom and His Timing is supreme. Let us pray - Abba Father, let us shout - Praise and honor and glory to You, thank you for Your timing in everything and thank You that we need not be burdens as to when things will begin nor when things will end for it is Your Goodness and Lovingkindness that sustains us through the celebrations and sorrows of our lives. I ask for Your Joy to abound, Your Peace to reside, and Your Hope rise up in the hearts and minds of my sisters-in-Christ. In Jesus Name, Amen. Lord may I embrace Your timing,

LyndiaSue