I just want to share some thoughts today about how I came to thinking about a New Wineskin. First of all I feel like 2020 has been a year of transition and change for us. I haven’t been sure to even know what to write about sometimes.
The other morning, the day after we got tested for Covid and had talked to several people that we know, that are suffering through Covid. I finally sat down and started digging deep into what my feelings were. I knew I needed to do that before I could write again.
We also at the very first week of Covid had bought a used car and had nothing but trouble with it starting a few months after we bought it. Marty had always bought and sold used cars and had never ran into anything like this, that was simply impossible to come up with a solution.
There are some things that man cannot repair… only God can. We started seeing that it is the same place that our nation seems to be right now. We took the car on a vacation to see our granddaughter we had not got to see after her birth, because of the pandemic, and the auto started acting up before we got to my brother’s house in Kentucky.
My nephew and Marty did many things to this car that would normally fix it, to no avail. We brought the car back home 4 hours, traded for our truck, and took off down to Southern Fla.
Marty had been a mechanic all of his life and had some of his friends where he had retired check it out only to come to terms with the fact that it needed a new engine which means big dollar signs.
Marty called the place where we got the car and found out that we could trade it back and get a different car. That was wonderful but it did cost us more money, it wasn’t a free trade.
I have learned in my life that:
I have to say that usually I have learned many, many things this way in life.
What we were basically looking for in the beginning was a three seat car to have room to take people places. We drove this car and were loving it and enjoying it until it started doing exactly the same thing that the other was doing. We took it to the car dealer and they did a few things and sent it home and two days later it died on the road. We had to have it towed back to the place and we were told the same thing, “Needs a new engine.”
Marty knows enough about cars that he went and looked at it. He felt like it wasn’t beyond repair so we had some people that we know tow it to their shop to look at it. They sent us a pic of the problem and we saw how impossible and how much work it would take to fix it.
During this process God started working in our hearts. We realized how hurting our world is. How impossible some people’s situations are. How we don’t even know what each other are going through because if we tell someone they try to blame us like it’s something stupid that we did to cause it.
That’s the day that I put this on Facebook:
I knew that our Heavenly Father was birthing brand new mindsets into us. It really doesn’t matter to me any more what someone else’s life speaks to them. This is what MY life is speaking to me. Someone else can analyze what we just walked through however they want but I don’t hear the voice of a stranger I hear the voice of my Father.
Each one of us have our own unique voice and purpose in this earth. We can’t get all caught up in other’s dreams and destinies and lose our own. We can learn things from people but the final say so is up to God.
We are still in the middle of the pandemic, of this auto situation, and the things going on in our nation. But I am going to learn exactly the lessons that I am supposed to learn, walk exactly where I am supposed to walk, and do exactly what I am supposed to do.
If you are in an impossible situation right now, please reach out. We can help you find answers and your purpose. I don’t want any dollars, my livelihood does not come from you. That is the biggest lesson that I learned many, many years ago.
With God, impossible things are made possible!
He makes a road in the wilderness, seriously!
He can tear down any lie.
There is always HOPE!!
See you soon!
Love you. ~jill~🌸