“WHAT WAS THE GOD WINK OF THE DAY?”
That was the question from my nephew, Duro, when I asked him to have an appointment with God with me this morning. So, my God winks are when everything lines up enormously too perfectly to be considered an ordinary coincidence. They are God’s sweet way of revealing His invisible Presence that is always with us. Here’s how God orchestrated one recently in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep, and He showed up to comfort me:
“Our job is to reach people before they get to prison. We must teach them everything you taught me, like being wise and getting closer to God.” That was me chatting with my brother, Kevin, about how my daughter, Julie, is about her mission from God, sitting with lawyers and developing strategies to get people out of prison. “Our mission from God, K, is to see that they never have to meet with Julie or those lawyers and never go to prison in the first place, starting in our homes.”
Fast forward to me having that sleepless night; I’m going through the Dr. Wayne Dyer podcasts just searching for some message from God through him, and of all the messages there, I listened to him talking to a correctional officer with this advice:
“Why not make the shift, Milo, to get yourself to a place working with people to avoid them ever having to get in that place in the first place? In other words, working with disenchanted youth. Working with disadvantaged youth. Working with drug places. Get yourself a degree in something or the training you need so that every time you reach one of those teenagers…you say that this is one less person who is going to be in that position.”
And there you have it, another one of my God winks where everything lines up a little bit too perfectly to say it was just a coincidence. For my conversation with Kevin to show up OUT OF THE HUNDREDS OF PODCASTS was not only God confirming what I discussed with Kevin, but it was also all planted by God to comfort your girl here as she continues her superhero role on behalf of her family (I WILL SWALLOW A BOMB FOR THEM!) with God letting her know that she is not fighting alone and that He is with her ALWAYS – in every conversation and even when she has her difficult nights and cannot sleep. See the love of God, guys? This message from Mufti Menk made me cry yesterday:
“So, Allah (God) says when I love you, I will let some things go wrong so you can come to me (me that night running to God!!!). When things go wrong in your life, brothers and sisters, it’s because Allah wants to bring you closer to Him. Not because He wants to chase you away. So bear patience. Patience is part of the remembrance of Allah…When Allah loves a slave, a worshipper, He sends tests in that direction so that this worshipper can become softened and closer to Allah. When your problem, difficulty, and hardship bring you closer to Allah, it is a gift of Allah. But when your ease sends you further from Allah, it was the punishment.”
Don’t run from your problems, difficulties, and hardships, my peeps; let’s use all these tests as gifts to get closer to God! Honestly, I felt so defeated that night that I didn’t even eat dinner. Still, after this God wink, your girl rose up like a soldier the next day, ready to continue fighting – IF MY GOD IS WITH ME, WHOM THEN SHALL I FEAR?