It is hard to comprehend but it is my truth that when faced with a cluster-curse, we can count on God's hand being in it.
I've believed this from my eyebrows up for a long time because I've so frequently seen it play out in the lives of others. Then I was gifted with my very own cluster: I invited three of my nearest and dearest friends to dinner, let them know what I'd be serving in case there were any food allergies, and waited. I got not one response. Nada...zip, zap, zero.
This was so egregious...unexplained and unexplainable...that I truly had to say to me that God's hand just has to be in this. I mean, I'm talking three of my nearest and dearest (and it's not like that's three of a multitude!), and no response from even one?
Here's how I really, honest and true, knew God's hand was in it: My feelings weren't hurt. I did not obsess on the many and varied things I could say that would set them straight...and make them feel ashamed (my big pay-off). PLUS: We all continued and continue to be friends. With it never being mentioned, much less explained.
Sidebar: I knew for certain they had all received the invitation...that fact was never in doubt.
I'm not even sure today when this happened...over a year ago but under two years. I never pondered it overmuch; it's only come to mind now because I was talking with one of those friends last night and alluded to it in passing. Nothing in depth needed to be said and it wasn't. It's just this morning while journaling that I was checking myself out...in that phone call, did I need to allude to it, or was I fishing?
That's when I re-realized (and felt like I was wrapped in a velvet blanket) that God's hand is in everything...cluster-curses and allusions to cluster-curses.
God's got it...give over and get grateful.
Thank you.
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