August 20, 2015 - Is that a Drip I Hear?

Hi, my name is Kim Norton.  I live in Northwest Arkansas with my husband of 24 years and two beautiful daughters.  This is my daily journal.  Hopefully, if you find this it will be an encouragement to you in some way.  I pray God's very best for you today and everyday!


August 20, 2015

This daily blogging thing is new to me so I have several years pent up inside of me.  I would encourage you to start at the first blog to get up to speed on the past 6 years as it will help today's post make more sense.  Yesterday, I left off with my broken, hurting, bitter self literally face down before the Lord crying out to Him to rescue me and my family.  I was emotionally, physically (I will talk about that at a later time), mentally, spiritually & financially broke.  Nothing. Zip. Nada.  I heard a motivational speaker say one time, if you hit rock bottom, make sure you are facing up.  Because if you can see up, you can get up!  I don't know how much I fully believe that statement because that would have required the physical wherewithal to actually get up.  I was down for the count.  The referee was slapping his hand down on the mat and calling it a TKO.

Then God reminded me of a verse in the Old Testament of the Bible.  It is Jeremiah 33:3.  I had written a Kingdom Kidz Club song called "God's Telephone Number" years ago, so I knew it by heart.  It simply says, "Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you don't know."  I also remembered that the word "call" doesn't mean pull out your iphone and just hit 911.  It also didn't mean a nice, neat, formal, sweet prayer. It meant crying out to God!  As a mother it is the kind of cry that will stop you in your tracks and allow you to move heaven and earth to get to your child.  That kind of Call.  So, that's what I did.  I cried out to God.  It was super sloppy, disjointed and rough.  I was Ugly Crying.  I laid it all out there.  All of the pain, misery, anger, bitterness, hurt and fear and cried out for God to rescue me & my family.

I wish I could tell you that the heavens parted and a shining chariot came rocketing out of heaven with all of the answers to my prayers.  God did, however, bestow upon me an instant gift - peace.  I felt an immediate and immensely calming peace come over me and a knowing in my being that everything was going to be alright.

Drip. Drip.

What is that? That, my friends was the spicket of my heart turning ever so slightly and a few drops eeking their way out.  I felt like a person wandering through the desert with an empty water bottle and the moment before imminent death, getting cool refreshing water on my tongue.  It wasn't a torrent or even a trickle but it was confirmation that the well that had been bone dry for 6 years had reconnected to the Source.