God is Good!!

July 31, 2010

God is so good! But I need to start at the beginning. Today started out okay. Asked her what she wanted for breakfast, eggs or pancakes; she replied, "Pancakes." But I should have known something was up when she said someone was taking money out of her account.

We had breakfast together and I thought things were fine. Today had been 4 days since I had not worked on a newsletter which was due soon. So I sat down and proceeded to work on that. After about a half an hour, she came out, all dressed up with purse in hand and asked if I could take her to the bank. Now, mind you, I was "relieved" of all of her financial business yesterday. So, per my husband, I told her, "I'm sorry. I can't. I have to catch up on my work." When she saw that I was serious, she said, "Well, then I'll walk."

Fine, I thought. I doubted she would do that. So, needless to say, that got my FIL stirred up. The next thing I know, she was talking to him very loudly and then approached me and said that I had been taking money out of her account. She even went as far as saying that my SIL told her that I was the one that was taking money out of her account. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! It soon evolved into a continuation of where we left off yesterday. In fact, it got really ugly. I quickly called my husband and SIL and let them know what was going on. My husband told me to get my BIL to get Dad out of here again.

I handed the phone to her so she could talk to my husband. She thought she was going to get an agreement from him with her accusation. When he told her she was having an "episode," it stopped her right in her tracks. She didn't know what to say. My SIL called later also to tell her she was wrong.

To make a long story short, the whole ordeal lasted about 2 hours, with my BIL finally taking my FIL away. That was the best thing that happened, and we learned an important lesson today.

About a half hour passed and all of a sudden, she came back in the room again. She called my name and I thought, Oh no, she wants me to go take her to the bank again. But this time it was different. She told me, "I need to apologize to you." She then went on to tell me that she was sorry to get all upset about this whole thing.
I went up to her and gave her a big hug, and said, "It's going to be okay." I am still amazed at what happened.

My husband is smart! He thought of this all by himself. What I mean is, by separating them, she could not have that agreement with my FIL. And without that power of agreement, that cleared the atmosphere for God to speak to her. It is an amazing example of what power we've been given. So...looks like we're back on track.