VICTOR b/c we are no longer a victim

Today I am reflecting on yesterday.... My children and I visited our previous church (I don't want to call it our old church b/c they are still our church family) and I had the opportunity to visit with our previous pastor.  For the first time in years I made the comment "My bones are not broken anymore".  Do you know that it has taken me a LONG time to say that I no longer have broken bones???  Sometimes brokenness is not the product of 'reaping what you sow' or punishment, but, rather, the reminder of God's Sovereignty.  God's bigger plan for your life, inlcuding past, present and future, is so much bigger than we realize or that our minds can fathom.  My 'broken' bones has not come without some preparation....When I am allowed to see our past along with the preparation for what was to come it gives me a greater understanding and gratefulness for what God was doing before we knew we needed it.