Refiners Fire!

I’m back! I had a wonderful weekend at “She Speaks”, the Christian writer’s and speaker’s conference I attended over the weekend. The best part of the weekend, other than spending quality time with my precious daughter, Amanda, was getting to know the women in my speaker evaluation group! What women of faith they are…truly Proverbs 31 women they are or at least striving to be!

The life experiences they brought to the group were heartbreaking, heart wrenching, heartfelt, and heartwarming and heart mending. I know that is hard to believe….all of those emotions wrapped into one but it is true. (You just had to be there!)

Not only had these precious sisters in Christ walked through the refiners fire, but they had also crawled, rolled, been dragged, stood, laid down, been carried, ran swam, and leapt through to emerge on the other side victorious in Christ! I must say, some are still in the midst of the fire…I could smell the smoke, feel the heat but I also felt the presence of the Lord, His Holy Spirit, and the Father as the trinity was ever present in their lives!

Kudos to my new “Sisterchicks”…keep walking, crawling, running or whatever it takes for your journey to be complete. Never forget God’s promise in Joel 2:25-26…The restoration of the locust years!
If you are out of the fire, give thanks and drink from the still waters…then don your flame retardant apparel for the next fire is just around the bend. If you are still in the fire, hang in there…He will never leave you or forsake you!
Remember, what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger! (If that statement is correct, then I should be able to carry an armored truck on one arm, an army tank on the other, all the while carrying my house on my back!)

Stay tuned…Tomorrow, I’ll tell you the news about my meetings with the book publishers!

Have a wonderful afternoon and know you a
re loved and cherished!
Lisa, the sightless but so full of wonder, one!