Years ago, I received an email entitled PUSH. Push. Push? Not push as in the word, but push as in an acronym P.U.S.H.
I had no clue what P.U.S.H meant, but I found encouragement with this little four letter word in a whole new way. So simple and yet so inspiring the way someone so clever put this together for the greater good for some one’s spiritual wellness.
There has been times in my life where this is all I know to do – pray until something happens and cling to God’s word “faith is the substance of things hope for, the evidence of things not seen.” In the late 90s was one such time. DH got laid off. Jobs in our area were few and far between it seemed. One week turned into another before melting into months which gave way to one year, then two, and three years of unemployment. P.U.S.H is all I could do.
At the turn of 2000 God answered our prayers providing DH with an opportunity to work in another state far, far from home. It wasn’t exactly where what we had planned, but grateful for the job.
We did not move. Instead, DH worked hundreds of miles away from home and visited us once a month. It was hard, but I remained hopeful of the things I couldn’t see or understand. I knew God had something planned for us.
While DH was out-of-town working, I helped him with his job hunting. I worked relentlessly 15 hours or more each day posting his résumé on every known lead crossing my path until one day a head hunter contacted me with a solid prospect in East Tennessee.
His new job was in Chattanooga just 2-hours south-west of us. That’s a long drive, but doable daily. Yep, it was hard. However, our appreciation superseded any thoughts of whining. We took a huge leap of faith several months earlier with DH’s job elsewhere and this felt like a walk in the park in comparison. This single act of faith taught us many things, things which helped us with dealing with his last lay-off in 2010. God rewarded our faithfulness mega folds with an immediate placement with a job in town.
Prayer works; remember when all else fails to P.U.S.H!
Thinking about my Christian heritage and deep ties of faith and prayer inspired my earlier post intended to go up yesterday. I want to invite you to view my Wordless Wednesday post entitled Peaceful Place.
My T2Q are:
- Do you pray along or do you ask others to pray for you?
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Does prayer make you uncomfortable?
Bonus: What is the most important answered prayer you witnessed in recent years?
Visit Miss Jenny and the rest of the Alphabe-Thursday classroom for more homework assignments of the letter ‘P’ and while you’re hopping around, be sure to play along with Miss Amanda in her latest edition of Thursday Two Questions.