As I look at this pictur of this family "in the waiting room" I remember countless times that I, too, sat and waited for that person to call my name and tell me news about Brian, my daughter, Taylor, or last year even my mom, Judy, as she battled breast cancer.  They hold your heart in their words.  The waiting room is a hard place to be literally and in our Christian walk with the Lord.  I would love for you to share about how God has come through for you in "The Waiting Room" of life.

My Diamond Experience with God!

I just want to share, before going to sleep tonight, how amazed I remain at what has happened to me personally during this past weekend at the IPHC Diamond Experience National Women's Ministries Conference in Nashville, TN.  God spoke to me and touched my life in ways that words cannot express!  I am different.  I feel different and I know that from now on my entire being is different.  God is the reason you see me in this picture standing on the same stage as the international Women's Ministries Director of the IPHC denomination, and that is GOD!  It has nothing to do with Jessica Daly but everything to do with HIM!  Don't ever underestimate what God can do for you and through you!  This is an incredible time in my life I will NEVER forget! 

It is really hard to believe that I am actually in Nashville, TN and that the IPHC Women's Ministries national conference begins tomorrow!  The most mind-blowing part is that not only am I participant, but I am a speaker!  I want you to understand that God is the reason that I am here!  God is the reason that our ministry has had open doors placed before us during the past year and a half!  I ask that you all pray for me as I share with the leading women in the IPHC denomination how important caregivers are and how important it is to begin a ministry for them within their states and personal churches.  Pray that minds and hearts will be opened to the Holy Spirit and to our message of love and hope for caregivers.  I also feel an overwhelming feeling of support and love from those around me!  Just another way in which God is showering me with HIS love!

I look at this picture and can totally understand the confusion and frustration that are on the faces of this couple!  You can see they are trying to figure out a bill and they have the checkbook open as well.  Being sick is expensive.  No matter what type of insurance or assistance you may have, medical expenses are astronomical and can ruin a family financially.  I want to encourage you today and share with you that God cares about your finances!  I can say that because for over six years I have seen God take care of our financial needs over and over.  Now, we are not rich in money, but each time a need arises God finds a way to provide.  We have even seen it provided to the penny of the amount we needed.  Even when we recently scheduled the caregivers' conference in August, we had no funding.  We relied on God totally and He paid for the conference in full.  It took time and it took trust on our part but it happened!  Rely on God today and watch Him take care of your financial needs!  Share a time when God has provided financial assistance in your life as a caregiver!

This morning I found my mind wandering and spinning.  Instead of waiting on God with patience, I was contemplating how I could help my present situation.  I was thinking of all the ways in which I could speed things along for the Lord.  Maybe there were things I could be doing to help Him, I was thinking.  I knew that God had called me to work part-time and then spend the rest of the time on our ministry, but maybe I needed to be rethinking this and finding more work so that we would have some extra funds.  Waiting on God to provide was getting a little scary.  I was coming up with all these different plans when I heard a text message come to my phone.  When I read it I was stopped and amazed.  My friend, Beverly, had no idea what I had been doing that morning.  She told me that while she was praying "Be still and know that I am God" kept coming to her.  God then spoke my name to her and she immediately sent the message to me.  Wow!  God was telling me to stop!  He was tired of what I was doing.  He had to get my attention and He sure did!  Later I heard this song and it just touched me even deeper.  Listen to the words and know that all God wants is for us to stop and trust Him.  Why is it so hard?  Do you ever feel this way?