Beauty

Tonight Doug and I and a couple other pastors had the privilege of praying over and anointing with oil a special family. I of course was watching Malachi the whole time so I didn't get to be involved as much but something Doug had shared really stuck out to me.
A few years ago Doug and I were anointed with oil and prayed over for our infertility, for my womb to be opened. When we were being prayed over I had high expectations of overnight supernatural healing. I thought this would do it, I'll be pregnant before I know it. Well, we are coming up on 6 years of not being able to conceive. My womb hasn't been healed and opened. Something that at times, is unbelievably hard to cope with. But with out this part, we would never had started fostering, Malachi would never had been placed in our home.
What Doug shared was that sometimes healing doesn't come or doesn't come the way we expect it to. If healing does occur it's not something that happens overnight, in a blink of an eye. It might be that God chooses to keep you in that circumstance so He can use it and you to show His glory. He turns it into something beautiful. He took our heartache and gave us something so much better. And for that I wouldn't change. It's something I constantly need to be reminded of.