I have must admit, the law suit I’m facing ripped the very spirit of who I am right out of my chest. As my buddy said so eloquently about one of his incidents; “I feel like I’ve been violated”, is exactly how I felt. This law suit hit me like a tone of bricks and caused me to fall into a deep emotional depression. I was hating life!

Friday evening my long time friend, Emily sent me a message on Facebook which brought back memories long forgotten.There's this one song she and I used to do as a duet; "It Took A Merical", and so I decied to go searching for it on Youtube. Well, for some reason the music video below kept popping up. Course, I’m not a big fan of Jimmy Swaggart so I kept bypassing it. Nevertheless, something kept prodding me to click on it to take a listen and so I finally did. Well, low and behold, the song brought my tears to flowed.

You know, God never gives us more than we can handle and he must have known that the other day was the perfect time for me to receive the law suit. He also knew how I would react, as well as how it would affect me. But He also knew how to weave me back into reality.

I have been through many tragedies. I have experience pain beyond what is possible to bear in ones life. I’ve been "through the valley of the shadow of death". I have stood on Satan's ground. And the only way that it is even possible I am alive today is because through the fires of life, God has walked beside me, quietly leading me through each experience. Had He not been there, I would not be here today!

With all I've been, are and will go through in this life, the point has been driven home in this old gospel tune ... that no matter what, we are truly "sheltered in the arms of God". And so with this carved into my spirit this law suit is nothing more than a stepping stone that has bruised my toe. I’ve come through worst … this will be a piece of cake! Therefore, I have turned this mess over to God and will move forward with confidence that those who are suing me will not prevail. I will win!

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“Sheltered in the Arms of God”

by Jimmy Swaggart

Until Tomorrow ...