It's Tough Being a Woman

This is the title of our Esther bible study.

Did you know that your destiny will always involve a group of people?  Without a doubt.  You are not in this life alone, nor were you created to be alone.

Sometimes this is comforting -- sometimes it's annoying -- sometimes it's angering -- sometimes it saves your bacon.

Pivotal points come at times in our life that are very inconvenient.  Almost always we think poor timing.  In our minds, it's really "right now?"  It doesn't work right now.

In Esther 4, she has been told her people will be massacred.  All Jews to be destroyed.  Her cousin Mordecai tells her that she HAS to do something.  Maybe she was in her position for such a time as this.  In those days, the queen had to be summoned to the king.  You couldn't just walk in and ask for a favor, or they would cut off your head.

She hadn't been summoned to the king in over 30 days.  She doesn't know what to do.  How can I save my people when the king hasn't had anything to do with me?

This is a pivotal point, right?

In my own life, I think of this very recent event.

Last year about this time, I contacted a woman about her selling her real estate card business.  She was terminally ill and needed to sell.  I waited... and waited... (this will be tomorrow's blog)

2 weeks before Christmas she called.  In this time, I had been hit in the nose and had infections in all 8 sinus cavities and had a few trips to the hospital.  REALLY not feeling well and on morphine.  Do you know what I wanted to tell her?  Now, is not a good time...

But God had other plans.  As I had learned in other life lessons, God uses the weak, defenseless to carry out His purpose. I drugged myself up and my dad drove me there to meet her to discuss buying her company.  It was a pivotal point -- she was terminally ill and time was of the essence.  Esther's decision was of the essence too.

God worked out all the details, and worked through my Dad's clear mind! HA! To help us buy this fun and fantastic business that can impact so many.  Plus the more time I spent with Cheryl, the more I realized our life purposes were right in line with each other!

I was made for such a time as this and so were YOU!!

What's a pivotal point in your life?