That Wednesday

This was shared with me some years back by a friend.  I never forgot it!  I am re-writing the incident. Names have been changed.

"Stop burning the candle at both ends!" snapped Tanya's husband, Dang.  It was a house of grumbles, grunts and groans, right from early morning to late night evening..even yelling, ranting and raving plagued their home on certain terrible days.

They labeled their home as a spiritual Christian home where they went regularly to church, read their Bibles and held prayer meetings at home.  Yet spiritual chaos reigned in their "haven."

Their two children, Piyah 12, and Jon 9 switched off to the cacophonous confusion in the house and did their own things to please themselves.

Tanya was tired each day.  She got up early in the mornings, put the clothes in the washing machine, started making the breakfast and supervising the maid to make sure she dusted all the furniture, swept, and mobbed each corner of the home.

Tanya kept the house scrupulously clean, cooked delicious food and did everything perfectly right, but she was never satisfied.  No one could do it right.

One day she opened a book, which said "If you keep looking to others to meet your needs, you will always be disappointed.  Only Jesus can meet your needs!"

It was a simple statement.  Nothing new or extraordinary, but when God is speaking, His Words are like fire in the bones.  This statement went right through to Tanya and ignited her soul with a new strength.

God was speaking and He was empowering her to obey that truth.

Now Tanya had to act on the truth given to her.  What could she do?

She decided to get up early mornings, leave the housework and have a time of devotion.  She remembered doing that in her early years.

The next day was Wednesday.  She got up early.  It was still dark.  She sat on her bed, switched on her bedside lamp, and started to pray and then after a while opened her Bible.  She took a passage and meditated on it.  It was amazing!  She got three insights from that passage and wrote them down.

Something started to calm Tanya deep down within her as she wrote them down.  She started to feel strong, centered and peaceful that morning.  The miracle was that this peace sustained her through the day and she found herself talking to God, something she never did during the day as each day was so rushed.

She did not nag anyone that day.  She did not complain.

The family was shocked into silence.  Dang, her husband wondered whether she had suddenly taken ill!  Her children kept staring at her in wonder.

Tanya loved that Wednesday and that powerful link with God.  She never had experienced something as wonderful as this before.

She decided to never stop her morning devotions and meditation.  Meditation changed her, transformed her and made her a new wonderful mother, wife and friend to many, many people.  They started to love her!

Her home changed, her children transformed and came closer to God and her husband started a new life in Christ.

Psalm 1:1-3:  How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.