Amy J. Bennett

So it’s official…Scott booked us 2 nights and 3 days at Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC for our tenth anniversary the first weekend in August.   It’s about 2 hours away from here so it’s not so far we feel like we can’t get back to the kids quickly but it’s unknown territory so we feel like it’s a getaway.  We have dinner reservations scheduled for both nights and a couples massage on Saturday which gives us a pass to their full spa for the day.  It sounds heavenly at the moment.

Psalms 37:7-11

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.

Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.

For evil men will be cut off,
but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.

But the meek will inherit the land
and enjoy great peace.

This morning I didn’t teach Sunday School.  I thought there was a chance I’d be at the beach with Mom and Dad so I had a senior volunteer to teach in my place although I ended up really talking most of the time.  We are in a series on the Beatitudes (see Matthew 5).  Then this afternoon I’m reading my Bible in 90 days section in Psalms and come across verse 11 where it says “the meek will inherit the land” and I was all, hey, that sound like the Beatitudes.  And guess what? the notation beside it says Mt 5:5 so there ya go.

I don’t take any multiple encounters with Scripture or lesson as a coincidence and since I don’t know of any situations I have right now that require meekness, it makes me wonder what’s coming!

*Update*

As I typed this, I got a txt from one of the youth that is in both my Sunday School class and in my Bible Study group saying “Ur lesson this morning and 2nite really meant something 2 me & i fixed something i nvr thought would b fixed so thank you” Don’t you love the txt shorthand??  I <3 it.  Anyway, the light bulb went off just now.

On the way home from church, I was welling up thinking about Sunday School and Bible Study. I had not prepared for either and yet, I was able to give input to both.  I was pulling illustrations from our former youth pastor, bringing insight from some blog posts from here, giving examples from my own life, recalling stuff from my 90 days study..it all seemed to just come out of my mouth.  I know that was God speaking through me and while I drove home I marvelled at the thought I was used by God today and I’ve been thinking of quitting teaching Sunday School and I was thinking, this is such a natural high, I don’t think I want to give it up.

At that point though, I knew what I had said was prompted by God bringing these things to my mind but at the same time, I felt like all I did was ramble in both sessions and wondered if people thought I just liked to hear myself talk.

But now with that txt coming in and the “coincidence” of Scripture, it’s all very clear that God is active and working and it’s just really, really cool.