Sometimes I think I will die from a broken heart. I was walking out of a beautiful worship service Friday night and there was a little couple in front of me holding hands and laughing. It totally wrecked me. I cried all the way home. I told God that I just knew I would die from a broken heart. Not cancer, or a heart attack, or old age but just from a plain ole broken heart.
I had so much as said those words and my phone rang. I looked down and saw that it was a person that I had been working with that was in a crisis situation. So I gathered myself and answered the call. I talked to her for about 30 minutes and when I got off the phone I just wept, but this time not for me but for her. I thanked God for allowing me the honor to work with other people who need someone to journey with them through their lives. I thanked God for giving me a mission in my life to show others HIS love through pain and suffering .
God knows that I cannot focus on myself very long. He has showed me himself as many times as I have needed to see HIM. He keeps HIS eyes on me, never leaving my side. He has shown me how strong I am with Him. He has shown me who I am.
So as I am writing this I don’t weep as I did Friday night watching that couple. God reminded me that I can rejoice because I had 24 years of hand holding and laughing with Jeff and more joy and love than I could have ever hoped or imagined.
I pray that as you read this that you will look at something that you think you will die from. Then look to Jesus and let him show you how HE sees it. His view is so much better than ours. As my husband always said “ Its all about the journey and what we make of it!!”
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you, he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Deuteronomy 31:8

I was standing inside a school office yesterday getting ready for a meeting. I walked in the school that afternoon like I had many times before and everything seemed normal.
Then all of the sudden Police were running into the office telling everyone to lock down the school. A middle school age boy was in the office with us and they instructed the teacher to take him away from the window. Then I heard someone explaining to someone on the phone what was going on. The student had gotten a text from his Mom who was sitting out front in her car and told him to come out or she was going to shoot the school up!
I was like What???? It didn’t take long before the police had the Mother in custody outside. As disturbing as that was, what I was hearing coming from the other side of the office was even more heart breaking. It was the son of the Mother who was arrested screaming. He was screaming in pure sorrow. I mean can you imagine how he felt? Knowing that his Mom was being taken away in handcuffs from his school. My heart broke for him. I thought of his sweet face all night last night and still today. What did his night look like? What faced him this morning when he woke up? Was someone caring for his emotional needs? Did he get a hug before school? Did he get breakfast? How can he learn at school when his home life is in such chaos? Has anyone ever told him that the ONE that created him will never leave him? Are there people around him that love Jesus and will help him walk this journey, a journey that looks to be a very difficult one. I pray for these things for him.
As we start our weekend lets all look to our right and to our left and see those that are hurting. May we not look away but embrace, love and serve them.

“Lord, help us not miss one of your desperate children!”

“ I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40

I was standing inside a school office yesterday getting ready for a meeting. I walked in the school that afternoon like I had many times before and everything seemed normal.

Then all of the sudden Police were running into the office telling everyone to lock down the school. A middle school age boy was in the office with us and they instructed the teacher to take him away from the window. Then I heard someone explaining to someone on the phone what was going on. The student had gotten a text from his Mom who was sitting out front in her car and told him to come out or she was going to shoot the school up!

I was like What???? It didn’t take long before the police had the Mother in custody outside. As disturbing as that was, what I was hearing coming from the other side of the office was even more heart breaking. It was the son of the Mother who was arrested screaming. He was screaming in pure sorrow. I mean can you imagine how he felt? Knowing that his Mom was being taken away in handcuffs from his school. My heart broke for him. I thought of his sweet face all night last night and still today. What did his night look like? What faced him this morning when he woke up? Was someone caring for his emotional needs? Did he get a hug before school? Did he get breakfast? How can he learn at school when his home life is in such chaos? Has anyone ever told him that the ONE that created him will never leave him? Are there people around him that love Jesus and will help him walk this journey, a journey that looks to be a very difficult one. I pray for these things for him.

As we start our weekend lets all look to our right and to our left and see those that are hurting. May we not look away but embrace, love and serve them.

 

“Lord, help us not miss one of your desperate children!”

 

“ I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40

Yup, that’s me directionally challenged in every way, don’t ask me how to get some place or to tell me to go towards the river because I will look at you like deer in the headlights. Ha-ha. When the iphone was created, along with the lady who says your directions out loud, it was the best day of my life. The Lord knows this about me. I mean HE created me, so it’s coming to Him as no surprise. Sometimes I don’t turn on the maps, and I just sit at the stoplight and look for something familiar before turning. Even then sometimes I go the wrong way and have to turn around. Some days it is comical; then some days it is just down right maddening!! God has spoken to me in these last years so many times through the book of Joshua. I have a whole testimony about this, but last night this stood out to me. Joshua 3:4 says: “ Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.” Those words gave me so much comfort, like okay Sherry, God knows that you sometimes don’t know which way to go, HE knows that you have not been this way before. God saying to me “ Sherry, do you trust me? I will lead you where you need to go, you just keep driving.”

In His Grip Ministries is up and going. Sometimes I sit at the stop sign and I say “Okay God I trust you so which way do I go?” Then I wait for HIM to tell me. Just like the girl on Google maps sometimes God takes me the long way so I will not get into traffic. I have had to spend a lot of time with HIM at the stoplight. People might be behind me honking and wanting to know what in the world I’m doing but I am just patiently waiting for HIM to direct me, even if that means I need to pull to the side of the road until I figure it out.

Wont you pray for In His Grip Ministries? The goal is to serve, and love and care for as many people as possible while driving them straight to the feet of Jesus.

Even directionally challenged people with a destination in mind get where they are going eventually. Heaven is a destination that I promise you I wont get lost finding; and I hope to take as many people with me as I possibly can.

 

Yup, that’s me directionally challenged in every way, don’t ask me how to get some place or to tell me to go towards the river because I will look at you like deer in the headlights. Ha-ha. When the iphone was created, along with the lady who says your directions out loud, it was the best day of my life. The Lord knows this about me. I mean HE created me, so it’s coming to Him as no surprise. Sometimes I don’t turn on the maps, and I just sit at the stoplight and look for something familiar before turning. Even then sometimes I go the wrong way and have to turn around. Some days it is comical; then some days it is just down right maddening!! God has spoken to me in these last years so many times through the book of Joshua. I have a whole testimony about this, but last night this stood out to me. Joshua 3:4 says: “ Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.” Those words gave me so much comfort, like okay Sherry, God knows that you sometimes don’t know which way to go, HE knows that you have not been this way before. God saying to me “ Sherry, do you trust me? I will lead you where you need to go, you just keep driving.”

 

In His Grip Ministries is up and going. Sometimes I sit at the stop sign and I say “Okay God I trust you so which way do I go?” Then I wait for HIM to tell me. Just like the girl on Google maps sometimes God takes me the long way so I will not get into traffic. I have had to spend a lot of time with HIM at the stoplight. People might be behind me honking and wanting to know what in the world I’m doing but I am just patiently waiting for HIM to direct me, even if that means I need to pull to the side of the road until I figure it out.

 

Wont you pray for In His Grip Ministries? The goal is to serve, and love and care for as many people as possible while driving them straight to the feet of Jesus.

 

Even directionally challenged people with a destination in mind get where they are going eventually. Heaven is a destination that I promise you I wont get lost finding; and I hope to take as many people with me as I possibly can.