God's Perfect Timing

When I led her Bible study group in a Youth For Christ club in 1973, Nancy was a teenager and I was a young mother. In GOD’S PERFECT TIMING, he has brought her back into my life. Now she’s my physical therapist.

When I began my therapy on December 31, I scored 49/56 on the Berg Balance Test. Today she retested me and I scored 55/56!! She said that after only one month it was “remarkable” progress! She couldn’t wait to send the results to my neurologist.


We had to laugh because now that we're both grandmothers, it seems that our ages are getting closer and closer.

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Another example…

A couple of weeks ago, I had just sat down to have my morning devotions. Progressing to the next chapter, which was on God’s holiness, I had just read Isaiah 6:3 “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

…and my phone rang. Normally I would have ignored the phone and called back later, but this time I trekked to my phone to see who it was. It looked like it was my daughter-in-law, Kristin, in Pennsylvania. So, I answered. It was actually my son Paul, and he explained that he and Kristin were in their chapel service at Valley Forge Christian College, where they work. They had just listened to a devotional about healing. “Dr. Meyer is here with us and he’d like to pray for you on the phone.” My eyes stung with tears. I kept thinking, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty…” When he finished praying, I could barely respond because I was so choked up. A few minutes later I wrote them an e-mail explaining the amazing timing of their call.

But I didn’t know the half of it. Dr. Meyer wrote back saying that just after the devotional, he had gone to Paul and Kristin and the three of them had prayed for me, then they all went to pray with students. It occurred to Dr. Meyer (he and Evie are close personal friends of ours) that he would like to call me and pray over the phone, but he didn’t have my cell phone number with him, so he searched out Paul and Kristin again, but they were each praying with others. So he waited. Finally, all three were available so they called me on Kristin’s phone.

And they called precisely after I read the phrase, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” Was it a coincidence? No, I believe God was showing me that he is almighty, and that HIS TIMING IS PERFECT...even in relation to my illness.

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And another one…

Six years ago God laid on the heart my friend Theda Bennett to pray for my physical healing. Several times she reminded God that I was healthy and strong, but He insisted that she pray. And she did. For five and a half years she obediently prayed. Then came my ALS diagnosis, and she realized why she had been praying all along.

We shook our heads in wonder, but we shouldn’t have been amazed. I believe God wanted us to see that he is a holy, but loving God; so he “wowed” us once again with HIS PERFECT TIMING!


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As human beings, we are bound by the calendar and the clock…but God is not. Why wouldn’t we trust the One who has a perfect view of past, present and future all at once?

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