Be Still And Know

Psalm 112:4 I will never forget my visit to Ruby. She was dying and knew that her end was very near. It was late in the afternoon when I went to see her in her cottage and the light was fading. But my overwhelming memory of that visit is of her radiant smile. On paper, the situation seemed so sad and hopeless, but Ruby didn’t see it that way. She knew God as a friend and was looking to the future with genuine excitement because she knew that he could be trusted. Most people would have looked at that situation and seen nothing but sadness and tragedy but, for Ruby, the light still shone. Over the years I have had the privilege of meeting many people whose life circumstances looked dark and forbidding, but whose faith in God meant they simply didn’t see it that way. I think of prisoners, people with disabilities, those who had been thrown out of their communities because of their Christian faith and others who, through no fault of their own, were facing financial ruin. In each of their lives the light was shini