When I arrived here in Texas a month ago, I remember asking God if this was really such a good idea. I mean, my life had just been turned upside down and now here I was, only knowing 2 people in a 7 hour radius, and I didn’t even have my stress-reliever, my harp. What was He thinking? And yet He showed me His amazing love, in that less than a week after I arrived someone let me borrow their “baby” harp! It only had 21 strings (it should have been 22, but one string was missing), but it was better than nothing, and I felt loved by God.
But still, 21 strings is a far cry from my 46 on my big harp, and it’s kind of hard to play songs with one hand an octave higher and one an octave lower so that they both fit, since then my fingers are constantly tripping over each other. So 21 strings was still very good, but I was continuing to get news of uncertainty, and more strings would have been nice.
And then this last week, He showed me His amazing love yet again! Someone else let me borrow another “baby” harp, this time with no broken strings, so it had a full set of 22. I nursed this harp back to health (tuned it many times, etc.), and now had two baby harps sitting in my dorm room. (I’m glad I have a nice roommate!) So on Friday I sat down to play my harps. Yes, two harps. I figured that if I put one on the left shoulder and played it with the left hand, and the other on the right shoulder and played it with the right hand, I could have 43 strings and my fingers wouldn’t trip over each other so much. (See the picture above!) And as I sat there on my dorm room floor, surrounded by harps that near strangers had let me borrow, I felt so very loved by God. He had given me 2 harps and 43 strings. I guess He really did think this thing through and knew exactly where to send me at exactly the right time, and I feel loved and thankful. Pray with me as I daily work on trusting that He knows exactly where to send me at exactly the right time in the months to come as well. Living in the unknown and uncertainty is hard, but He is good and He will never leave us nor forsake us. If He can send me two harps, what other “tricks” may He have up His sleeve in the days to come?