On a better note

So I shared w/ Anne about my frustrating day yesterday & she encouraged me w/ a story of her own:

There is a woman in her neighborhood that is a prostitute. And no one in the neighborhood will talk to her. They don't like her b/c of her "profession".
But Anne feels like Jesus would love her & she wants to show her the same love that Jesus would. And she's talked to her when she sees her and has helped her through some different situations. Anne said, "her heart is so good. I feel like I can trust her more than these other people in the neighborhood that don't like her. I just feel comfortable with her. At least she recongnizes that what she is doing is wrong and doesn't act perfect. I like people like that b/c i know I'm not prefect either."

So the other day she saw this lady running around the neighborhood obvoiusly upset about something and crying and yelling. So Anne went out to see what was wrong. "I cant find my puppy! He's been missing for an hour now and he's never gone missing!" Her puppy is only a few months old, tiny little chihuahua.
A few months ago, Anne had helped this lady find her son who was missing also. And so Anne felt comfortable this time to say- "Let me pray to my God to find your puppy. Let's pray together". So Anne prayed and they started looking again. Anne just felt like God told her the puppy was in the house.
So she said, "I really feel like my God is telling me your puppy is in the house, let's go there and look". The lady insisted- no, I've looked there all morning and he's not there! We have to look all around the neighborhood!
But Anne felt very strong that this is what the Spirit was whispering in her heart, so she suggested, "what if we just go look & if she isn't there we'll come back out here again".
So the lady agreed.
As Anne was looking around in the yard, the lady went inside. And within a few moments she heard the lady shouting for joy!! She's here! She's here!!!
The dog had climbed the stairs for the first time ever and was upstairs in a bedroom.
The lady came down w/ tears in her eyes and told Anne, "your God is amazing!"


We have to be faithful to speak up and share what is on our hearts & leave the results up to God. Be encouraged. I know I was!!