Life Preservers

I recently met up with an old childhood acquaintance via facebook...The last time I remember seeing him was when I was approximately ten years old at a church function....This meeting has definately been a life changing moment for me.....Let me explain....Before this meeting I had been praying that God would send people into my life that would bring change.....You see I felt like a person in the ocean and I was drowning......Why did I feel this way?....Well I do not have enough time to go into that...let's just say lots of life events.....What did this person do that brought life to me?.....Words.....Words of encourgement......Encouragement to find the gifts that God had put in me and let them come out....A HUGE life line.....

I was sitting here at my computer pondering all of this when this picture popped into my head....You see I am a visual person and God knows this, so he uses pictures to get his point across to me.....the picture was of me sitting in a chair in a dark room, just sitting....now beside me was a lamp, but it was not turned on.....all of the sudden a person walked into the room, walked over to the lamp and turned it on.....looked at me and took my hand and said "ok now it is time to get up and get going, you've sat here long enough in the dark"....though this was just a picture, God definately got his point across to me.....He had sent me a life line, an encourager......and just in the past week, it has made all the the differance to me.....

Now for you my reader.....Are you a life line or could you be a life line to someone?......Go ahead throw out a word or two of encouragement today and see what happens......There are lots of drowning people out there......