The Threshold


  • Home
  • Bio
  • Books
    • The Threshold: Volume One
    • The Threshold: Volume Two
  • Blog
  • Media
  • www.mdrsongpublishing.com

01 May

Stop and Pray

Michael D. Rourke The Glory of His Name 2 0

By the middle of November, 2013 both volumes of the threshold were finished. At first I didn’t know what to do with myself but it was natural for me to spend more time with my mother in the nursing home.

Ma came home for Thanksgiving and Christmas and we spent New Year’s Eve together watching old movies in her room eating hot fudge sundae’s with nuts, whip cream and a cherry on top.

On January 25, 2014 my mother died. I was in the throes of promoting my book and working with the marketing department at Westbow press and the Bohlsen Group Publicist’s. The landslide of responsibility which came in the preparation to sell the property was mounted on top of my continuing health issues.

Now it’s May 1, 2014 and I’m reflecting the facts. The family home is on the market to sell along with my lot of trees and I’m living in an apartment. I’m seeing a neurosurgeon and being tested for an operation on my neck. I’m riddled with arthritis and have been placed on the disabled list.

But the biggest and the best fact of all is God’s grace, I still stop and pray to my Lord Jesus. Amid the changing of addresses, piles of paperwork and the loss of my home surroundings for the last 20 years and my childhood I have found again and again the comfort of my heavenly Father.

Each time I stop and pray I experience joy. Each morning I sing “I’ll Fly Away” and “There Is a Redeemer” my voice bellows and echoes off the plaster walls in the emptiness of the old family home. I wait with anticipation to see what God will unfold in the next phase of my life.

Even though the home may be empty, even though my personal and emotional framework is in pain and falling apart my inward response to God’s call has been blessed. I lift His glory and love each and every trial He puts me through as the Holy Spirit teaches me with His gentle kindness.

Through the process of being dislodged, upset and forced to deal with natural circumstances at 60 years old I’m at peace with Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Who could ask for anything more?

Regardless of how fast time flies and how the social, political, economical, educational, judicial and other man-made systems are plagued with trouble and continue to fail, I’m at peace with God.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior you know what I mean and the peace I live in. If you do not know Jesus Christ and the revealed Holy Scriptures you are lost here on earth and going into the eternity of hellish torment to come. Ask Lord Jesus into your heart with sincerity, read the Bible and grow in the peace of God.

Taste the goodness of the Lord and find out if you are one of His. He calls all to come, can you hear the call? Stop and pray.


comfort joy Peace
Facebook

2 Responses to Stop and Pray

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Recent Posts

  • Democracy Has Failed
  • Why Masks
  • Pray For Jesus America
  • Respond To The Gospel
  • Had Enough TV Stop Watching

Archives

  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • November 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014


  • Home
  • Bio
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Media

Copyright © 2013. Michael D. Rourke. All rights reserved.