Good Morning from Becky,
Psalm 98:1 “Sing to the Lord a NEW song, for He has done marvelous things”. This verse is written on a lace banner ,with a beautiful bird sitting on a branch, that hangs on a wall in my home. It was a gift to me from another woman. It was actually given to me from “the other woman” after I helped care for her during her bout with cancer. My first husband left my girls and me in 1991 during an affair and later married this same woman. Unless you have been in that situation, you cannot imagine the utter despair, betrayal and rejection with which you are forced to live. I had no song in my heart to sing anymore. The life I had been living for years had been a lie and I didn’t even know who I was. My husband at the time told me to “get over it” and “life goes on”. Fine for him to say; he had everything he wanted and was having a fine time living it up. However, the day he told me the famous line of “I will always love you, but I am just not IN love with you anymore” and then walked out my door, a bomb went off inside my home and the shrapnel was felt not only in my life and the lives of our daughters, but it rippled down into our entire family. My world was dark, and for one who enjoys singing both privately and professionally, there was no more song… And then God! This is of course, for the sake of time in a devotional, a condensed version, skipping over so many incredible revelations that the Lord carried me through. But over time, by getting deep into the word of God and communicating with Him more than anyone else, the song started coming back into my spirit. I realized that no one and nothing can take away who God made me to be and I started rebuilding who I was. I let the Lord have my empty vessel of a soul and fill it up with His purpose and plan for who He made me to be. Several years later, the woman who had the affair with my husband, and who was now his wife, had cancer. God nudged me to care for her and by praying for her, bringing her meals, and learning how to love the unlovely was the start of the journey of true forgiveness. Today, she is cancer free and we are grateful for that. After the struggle she had been through, she saw the banner hanging in a bookstore and she thought of me. She knows I sing (she actually loves hearing me), and she felt at the time that she had a new song because of the care I had shown her. Day | 71