It is difficult enough to address common sense issues such as holding down a job,finances,general relationships, etc., with someone who experiences hidden disabilities. But when it comes the time of life that they begin to experience feelings and desires for the opposite sex, there is an increasing amount of variables involved. So much so that one is almost guaranteed to have setbacks in other areas.My daughter had been doing so well! I was sharing with a friend just how good she seemed to be doing and at that very moment a situation arose that would prove quite the contrary. All of a sudden, whatever progress we had made up to that point seemed to have gone 'out the window'. It was like she experienced a 'short circuit' or 'blew a fuse'.
Over the course of the next few hours, I learned that much of the old behavior had returned.. After much prayer and consideration, it appears that all this may have happened because of not knowing what to do about certain 'feelings' or desires she may have encountered along the way.
Ironically, we are taking an online college course in early childhood education and just today read what should have been my daughter's life story from birth to age three, (the 'informative years'). She learned that certain consistent relationships are needed very early in life in order to form the foundations necessary to lead a healthy life. Without this stimulation, things are not quite "connected in the brain" as she put it.
I asked if she knew what the cure was for someone that did not experience this early foundation. She was quick to say that there is no cure. This opened the door for me to tell her that the Bible says she was 'fearfully and wonderfully made', and that God made no mistakes.
I gave her a big hug and told her that knowing and believing that God loves her and knows the plans He has for her to prosper and for her to have good success, is part of the remedy. Another big part of the cure is Love.
I believe God is using life experiences such as these to restore that which the locust has eaten and we will be delivered as it says in the book of Joel...
"Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Joel 2:21-32
As for the relationship issue, we are praying through and trusting God to lead and guide us each step of the way.
JESUS PAID IT ALL
I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
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