Warts and All

A young man named Rob approached me as soon as the service was over, eager to tell me his story. He was attending Sunwest Church for the first time and had only been a believer for a year. I was a bit surprised at the enthusiasm with which this single young man approached me since my message had been a challenge to parents on Mother's Day. In my talk I had told the story of God inviting me to pray for the healing of a Plantar's Wart on Kendall's foot when she was four years old and how God miraculously healed her foot three days later. The wart had simply fallen out. I knew it was God's doing since He had so clearly told me to pray for healing. Until Sunday morning, I had never heard a similar story. But this young man had experienced almost exactly the same thing. He had struggled with the wart for nine months when, as a brand new Christian, he sensed God asking him to pray for healing. Rob was very excited to tell me that his wart had fallen out three days later while he was in the shower. What was God telling him through this? Maybe that he was on the right track? That he was where he was supposed to be that Sunday morning? That God cares about even the details of our lives!

Having spoken that morning on the legacy we leave as parents, I had the opportunity to talk and pray with parents and others in whose lives God was working . On Friday and Saturday, I spoke at a women's conference in Olds. All in all a very busy and productive weekend!