Making the Turn

When we go through trials or struggles in our life, there comes a time when you see a light at the end of the tunnel and feel things are about to get better. My pastor calls this "making the turn".

I realized we were finally making the turn while I was clearing out the messages on my home phone answering machine. Message after message were debt collectors that had called over the past few weeks. Some calls I answered, some I intentionally let the answering machine pick up because I had no response for them of when I would be able to pay them.  Thankfully we are making progress on catching up them, but hearing the messages again reminded me how hard it was during the moment.


We received an unexpected blessing when on the phone about my car note, we found out we only owed two more payments. Even during this crisis, God provided a rainbow.

The first time I recognized the power of realizing you are making a turn was after I had been hurt very badly by a friend. I thought about what she had done on a daily and almost hourly basis. On the way home from work one day, I looked at the clock and it was after 5:00 p.m. I had gone all day without thinking about the incident. I knew if I made it through a whole day, then I was making a turn in the road and it was the beginning of a new and better direction in my life. It was an enlightening revelation.

In life we will travel down many roads where we encounter hurt, pain, disappointment. We must remember every road at some point has a turn or bend, where we can once again get past the roadblocks and continue on our journey.

Isaiah 42:16 says I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.