Cathy's Heart

Craigslist, Auto Trader and Carmax. These are the websites I have been browsing the past week in search of a car for my daughter. Today, after the test drive of a car that ran rough and had bad brakes, I began to worry about finding a reliable car for her. My heart turned to the Lord in prayer. But I realized it was anxious and worried prayer, not trusting and faith-filled. I adjusted my attitude and began to thank God that He knew our need and to trust that He could and would supply it. Then a thought occurred to me: "Remember!" "Remember the times I have provided a car for your family. Remember the ways I have answered your prayers." And I did! I remembered the time I quietly prayed for a car for my oldest son his senior year of college. My in-laws called the very next week, offering to give my son one of their cars. Then, I remembered the quiet prayers I said for my second-born son after the old car he'd been driving gave out the night of his engagement to hi...

Recently, I had to answer my husband's cell phone. When the call ended, I glanced at the picture on his screen saver. It was a picture of me. Suddenly it occurred to me that my husband of twenty-eight years has always had a picture of me first place in his wallet, front and center in his law office and on the desk top of his home office. I began to think of the pictures on my screen saver, on my nightstand, on my refrigerator and in my wallet. The pictures were of our children and more recently of our grandchildren. I knew God was trying to tell me something! I realized my husband and I were in a pattern of going separate ways. Although happily married, I tend to make our grown children, our grandchildren and ministry opportunities my top priority. When my husband invites me to his business functions and social engagements, I find it easier and more comfortable to stay home. I believe in and support his work, his ministries and his activities but I was not a part of them. As I look...