In the past few weeks I have gotten the opportunity to visit with several friends that were/are going through some very difficult trials in their lives. Some losing a child/children, some marital discord, some financial worries, and many other situations. I am certainly no stranger to trials in my own life and I feel so honored to be able to share the burden with some wonderful women. During these times I continue to hear a common theme throughout the conversation; that it is so powerful to have believers to walk alongside you during your hard, dark, lonely times. Through these relationships I have experienced the love of God through His daughters in a powerful way. In the midst of pain and suffering He created us to lean on one another, to strengthen, to hold each other up. The Lord intended us to walk with each other through these hardships, to hold hands and hearts, to encourage one another in His hope and mercy.
While I was spending time with the Lord this morning I was reading in "The Love Dare" and the author used the illustration of sequoia trees. He said that the sequoia tree can withstand strong winds, floods, and even fires because they are one of the only species of tree that interlocks roots with one another. This illustration made my heart swell with joy and love for the women in my life who have allowed me to "interlock roots" with them, it is by this sharing of life with each other that the Lord has ministered in abundance to me. "Where two or more are gathered..." this is the way God intended us to love each other.
this is an image of the sequoia trees, may we be willing to interlock roots with one another with the Word of the Lord as our common bond.
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