Healing from Divorce # 4

Continued from # 3 on "healing from divorce" foot note This all happened 12 years ago!!

I woke up the next day feeling like a new man, I should be miserable I thought, God is so cool. The next few days were to prove even better.

On Wednesday After noon, I was working on a house in South Salem when a friend left me a message on my cell. He wanted to know if I would come to a “wake” (gathering of people who celebrate someone`s passing) at his house that evening around 7:00pm. It was for the Mother of the Former director of an “YWAM” base who was staying over at his house.

I arrived about 7:30Pm as I was late getting home. The door was open so I walked right into the front room. Sitting in a circle on a mixture of sofa`s, wing chairs, dining chairs etc. were about 15 people. I only knew about three of them. I thought what am I doing here at someone else’s wake, why would my friend invite me to something like this. Before I could turn and leave quietly , my friend Carl spotted me and beckoned me to a vacant seat in the circle. Therefore, I sat down and listened.

One of the group was sharing memories about her deceased Mother. She described her as a red head, 64 and she had died of leukemia.She had me at the "Leukemia part ; my mother was a red Head, 64 years of age when she died of Leukemia. I never got to go home to Ireland to the funeral (long story for another time, let’s just say God`s hand was in it). Ok, I knew why I was there, I was getting closure at some else’s funeral. God has a great sense of humor.

Two more people spoke and then all eyes fixed on me. So I quickly introduced myself and filled them all in about my Mother. They all knew exactly what God was doing and encouraged me to share. It was great I just let go poured out my heart, complete with tears. It was very healing.

After it was over a man in his fifties approached me, shook my hand, and hugged me. he was Michael Imish the YWAM director, ( intresting name LOL) it was his Mother who died. He told me he had wanted to talk to me the previous week on the night I saw my Boys for the last time. He went on to tell me about His Divorce 12 years before. He described his ex- Wife just like mine, same type of personality. He described his two boys, same age as mine and how he sat crying on the lawn outside his Home when they all left. Then later that night How God asked him to give them up to Him and he would be their father and now 12 years later how they were both missionaries.

Wow, I was stunned, here was my confirmation that I was on the right track. I love how god confirms things he tells in private, as only a loving parent would.

The rest of the evening was a true blessing and I slept soundly that night…to be continued! :))