Me:  I like your corn hole game board!

 

Prodigal: Yeah, it is pirate style 🙂

 

Me:  How is the game going?

 

Prodigal:  Not well, I just can’t seem to make the right throw.

 

Me:  Before the next game starts let me share something that I just read.

 

This is found in the book Turning Toward Joy by David Jeremiah.  I woman who name was not mentioned wrote this poem.

 

The things that happen unto me

Are not by chance, I know,

But because my Father’s wisdom

Has willed to have it so.

For the “furtherance of the gospel”

As a part of His great plan,

God can use our disappointments

And the weaknesses of man.

 

Give me faith to meet them bravely,

Trials I do not understand,

To let God work His will in me–

To trust His guiding hand.

Help me to shine, a clear bright light,

And not to live in vain-

Help me hold forth the Word of life

In triumph over pain.

 

Philippians 1:30

For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org