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He has made everything beautiful in its appropriate time. He has also planted eternity(a sense of divine purpose) in the human heart(a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God) yet man cannot find out(comprehend) (grasp) what God has done(His overall plan) from the beginning to the end. Eccl 3:11

Royal Daughters of the King

      Let me see if I can explain, without giving too much personal detail, how God revealed that He has made all things beautiful, even the difficult things in our lives.

     I sat in my car and grieved. I was angry over many deeply painful relationship issues with some of my loved ones. All my screaming, crying and praying appeared to have done nothing to solve the problem. Over and over, for years, the same cycle had repeated itself. It seemed hopeless.

     The next morning, early before dawn, I sat in the dark on the golf course bench next to my house, like I had done so many mornings in the past, broken and desperate, the hurtful memories running through my mind nonstop. One by one, I turned the people, the pain, the anger over to the Lord, crying out to the only one I knew who had the power to help, the loving Holy Spirit. 

     The troubled waters of  my soul quieted as I began thanking Him for everything, even the pain and people that caused it. To thank Him for the negative seemed ridiculous to my natural mind, but I knew from past experiences, that it was only after I relinquished it to Him in this way, that a peace would finally come, and come it did, covering me like a comforting warm blanket.

     With my eyes closed, I waited in the stillness of His presence and entered the invisible and eternal pathways in His Kingdom made available through Christ's resurrection when He united us back to the Father. (Before I go on, I want to express that this happened without any effort on my part, nor did it happen because I am any more special than you. God in His mercy allowed me to see this. He has unique and beautiful paths for each of you, too, as you seek to know Him and His love.)

     In my mind's eye, or another way of expressing it, is by the Spirit of God, I suddenly saw myself under a waterfall. I was watching myself and experiencing it at the same time. All the ugly words that had been spewed upon me, all my anger and pain was washed away. I felt and saw it disintegrate as the living waters flowed over my spirit. Then I watched as I dove into the pool of water formed by the waterfall and enjoyed swimming in the refreshing waters before I climbed upon the bank and sat with Jesus, my head against His chest. 

     As I listened to the waterfall splashing into the pool, the old pain began to bubble up again. Jesus lifted my chin and motioned for me to look around. To my surprise I saw many sparkling diamonds suspended in the air. 

     He spoke through my thoughts, "Those are your tears. Nothing is wasted. I have made all things beautiful, even before it happens. Here in eternity there is no time. 

     At that moment, the pain I'd felt bubbling up was again absorbed into Him.

     I kept hearing over and over in my thoughts, "I made all things beautiful.

     Then He lifted my chin and looking down he flicked my cheek as the words dropped into my thoughts."Even you."

     Suddenly, I was aware of my surroundings on the bench, the sun shining on my face. A warmth filled my inner being at the thought that He loved me so much that He would bring me to the refreshing waterfall to sit with Him, especially when I'd acted so horribly and had shown so little faith in His love and care. 

     My thoughts turned to my tears sparkling like diamonds in an invisible Kingdom of waterfalls and a smile spread across my face and as I pondered Jesus' words, "Nothing is wasted. I made all things beautiful." I sat for a while in the quiet morning and listened to the birds sing as a new day started. 

     Giggling, I walked back to the house with a lightness in my step assured that whatever came my way, my all knowing, loving Jesus had already made it beautiful.

     Over time, the difficult relationships turned around. Most importantly, I fell more in love with Jesus and the more time I spent being thankful for all things---even what I may not understand or like---a great peace filled my life while I waited and believed for the beautiful things in the Kingdom to manifest in the natural world.

     Oh, yes, anger and frustration sometimes pop up in my heart. When that happens, I sit still, ask forgiveness for forgetting what He taught me, then I breathe many deep breaths, wait in His loving embrace as He reminds me that He's made me beautiful, too. 

     So precious daughters, remember that there are no favorites in His Kingdom. What He has done for me, He will do for you. He waits to meet you at the Kingdom waterfall even if you can't see it and embrace you with His love.

     I assure you He pours out each and every day His loving kindness. He saw everything---our doubts, fears, feelings of failure and despair, along with every difficult situation we face, and He absorbed them into Himself on the cross; then made an eternal pathway to that place in the Father where all things are possible, even making tears sparkling diamonds, washing away our pain and making all things new.

     I leave you with this verse in the Passion translation: "You kept track of all my wandering and my weeping. You've stored up my many tears in your bottle---not one of them is lost. For they are all recorded in your book of remembrance." (Psalm 56:8)

TRANSPARENCY: Today I was challenged again with situations in my life that caused me to feel like a failure in silly little ways. I shed a whole lot of tears before I stopped, breathed in His grace and mercy and recalled what Jesus taught me at the waterfalls. 

     Peace settled in my being and I knew a failure wasn't who I was. I was a beautiful new creation and all those silly little things in this world that had disturbed me did not belong in His Kingdom where I now lived with Him. 

     If I focus my thoughts on oneness with Him in the heavenly places, I can sense and know the beautiful love He pours out daily on all creation, including me and especially those I loved.

My prayers are with you in our journey together at walking in the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Feel free to contact me through email, text or phone if you need personal prayer or just need to vent or talk.

Until next time, blessings in your Journey!

Linda Fergerson