We don’t know what we know, but one thing’s for sure, if we take the time to look back, while we couldn’t see then what we see now, we see Him working it all out.
Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench Classes United. We are so grateful for the transparency she shares and pray you will be blessed by it as well.
Note from 4.30.25
As I am re-reading these old journal entries I am instantly brought back to the moment in time sitting at that little kitchenette desk in our beautiful hotel suite in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I remember looking out the big window overlooking the city and its cold, dreary weather
and feeling the same sadness of that gray, winter sky
But at the time I could not pinpoint why…
It was such a fun, spur of the moment trip visiting AJ while he traveled for work, and I could say it was simply the stress of traveling solo on an airplane for the first time with little Amos who had just learned how to walk
Or I could say it was these “pregnancy blues” that came over me while I was very pregnant with our second baby on the way…
But looking back 4 years and 3 boys later, I laugh at how silly that stress was
It was much deeper than that
Something in my soul was amiss…
and now it is beginning to unfold
and all make sense
As I reminisce reading these old journal entries, tears begin to build
because those inner groanings were meant for such a time as this…
They were meant for this wilderness
This healing bridge
and all I can do is smile
as tears of joy begin to fill my eyes
thinking about the goodness of God
What an amazing, faithful God we serve and get to love
A God who knew that on this day I would need these words…
(Side note: I didn’t even pull out this old journal…my now newly walking 11 month old who likes to go through ALL my drawers pulled it out yesterday and placed it on my bed…)
What a great reminder of His presence in my life.
Love,
Abigail
