By Kathleen Steele

Email: windofgod@hotmail.com

"Where are YOU, my heavenly FATHER? 
I have searched for YOU the last few days, 
and I could not find YOU beside me as before. 
Why have YOU stepped back from me? 
Is it, because I am being tested? 
Have I done wrong? 
If I have, my dear FATHER, 
I wish to repent and have YOU beside me, 
for no sin is worth the price of your absence. 
I think that YOU are telling me, 
that YOU are here, 
but I can not feel YOUR presence as before. 
Why can I not feel YOU here?" 
As I sit and contemplate YOUR reason, 
and why I feel this way, 

YOU show me a vision..... 

there are 3 ladies at the front of a church, 
all seeking YOU, 
each as earnest as the other, 
in the spirit as I see, 
but I also see differently, in the natural. 
For I see one just sitting there, 
eyes closed and no emotion at all. 
The second one is crying her eyes out. 
And the third one is smiling and talking quietly. 
As I watch, 
YOU slip up to each, 
yet in a different way. 
The first that has no emotion, 
YOU embrace her warmly, 
and cuddle her. 
Then after a bit, 
YOU go to the second one, 
that has wept rivers of tears. 
YOU pass her up with only a glance. 
The third one, as YOU pass her, 
YOU touch her shoulder. 

So then, I ask, "Why LORD?" 
And YOU smile at me 
and reply........ 
"The first lady did not know 
IF I was there or not, 
so I reassured her. 
By MY hugging her, 
as she felt MY warm embrace, 
she knew things were going to be fine. 
The second lady, has known ME for years, 
and she KNEW I was there, hearing her plea. 
And that I would wipe her tears away. 
The next one, I touched her shoulder, 
as I passed by, 
for she is getting used to knowing 
that I AM there all the time. 
Each had her need, 
and I KNOW them well, 
for they are MY children. 
So-now do you see? 
You may not have felt ME there, 
but I AM! 
I supply your needs, 
each day. 

But you have to learn to TRUST ME!" 
My answer to my questions had now been answered, 
so I snuggled up in HIS loving arms, 
and whispered......"Thanks, DAD!" 

By Kathleen Steele Nov. 1, 2003