Rolling Along!

The next week began with a little redecorating; Mary and Robin had put up the Christmas tree. It was important, Mary felt, that life go on despite no movement on the sale of the house. No one had even looked at it for at least a month and half. So Mary had decided to deck the halls with all the trimmings. Along with this Mary had washed some of the curtains in the downstairs bedroom and re hung them in the dining room where they added a lot of Christmas pizzazz to the room because the curtains were a bright red and just looked so festive. The bedroom curtains were replaced with some pretty blue check valances Mary had purchased at a garage sale for the cottage. Since they weren’t moving there Mary dug them out to add some crisp freshness to this little bedroom. They went very well and complimented the other blue check pillows and bed skirt Mary already had in that room.
The third thing that happened was a large pine buffet and hutch Mary had in her possession since Toronto finally sold on Kijiji. Mary had emptied the cabinets of their contents months ago so they were just sitting there taking up space. Once the cabinets were gone it left the dining room looking much bigger. Mary was glad for the $300 from this sale. She was going to deposit the money in the bank to help pay her visa bill.
During this time the message that kept repeating itself to Mary was to trust in God with all her heart. She was not to lean on her own understanding but in all her ways acknowledge God and He would direct her path. Further the message was to commit her way to the Lord and trust him, or as one translation put it to “roll upon Jehovah your way, trust upon him and he worketh”. “Trust, trust, trust”, that was part of the message. But Mary felt she was not only to trust but seek God’s wisdom at a time when she wasn’t certain what the next move was. Oh yes, they heard they were to move to Windsor but doubts had begun to crawl in suggesting maybe she had once again drawn her own conclusions from what she read. Mary felt she was at her “wits end”. The more reason to trust God and seek His wisdom, Mary told herself.
And Mary was trusting God, wasn’t she? No doubt she was as she was living in the moment and doing what was at hand to do and waiting daily for direction. Each day came and each day went. What tomorrow would bring she didn’t know – today had enough worries of its own. As for this house and the sale of it and the purchase of another one in Windsor: what of it? She didn’t know and had decided to roll all these cares and her ways onto God, as God directed her to do and just trust Him for the next step. There was nothing more to say for the moment but to live in it and wait. And so she did.