Love Will Save the Day

 

 

I don’t even know how to write this in a way that is poetic or sweet. All I can do, is embrace it like a comforting, and yet sorrowful country song. On June 27th, God met with me in a dream encounter, and He gave me a promise. He said, “I will pay you back for the mistreatment that you will go through”. 

 

Then, He asked me if I would let go of my car, since I only used when we were moving from place to place. I said no at first, but then I said, “It’s yours, not mine”. I assumed it was going to be an Abraham test, and that I wouldn’t actually lose it, because I had specific promises about my car, or perhaps they were about a new car. God knows….

 

Then on July 25th, God gave me an encounter in my dreams again, and He led me through a very specific prayer. The prayer went like this, “Help me to open the doors that I need to be opened, and help me to close the doors that need to be closed…and help me understand why?”. 

 

It was right after that the storm swirled into my life with a fury. My website payment processor of many years closed me off, without even a valid reason, and I was suddenly trapped and unable to receive what I had coming, or so it looked. 

 

I was in frenzy trying to build a new web store and connected to a new payment company. The website I built was so beautiful, and I felt so good about the transition. 

 

But then, in the beginning of August, God met with me again, and He told me that the ‘beautiful’ new company I had found to display my products was very ‘ugly’. Then He said that He was going to turn on the lights and help me see the truth about them. 

 

After that, the next morning, I had a bunch of unfair charges from them trying to bill me for services that I had already paid for. I ended up having to pay for my services double, and after that they made my store offline, and no one could access my page. 

 

So I ended up going back to my boring, plain blog page and added a very simple store, which I am still working to set up. It’s basic, but it does the job, and that is all I can ask for at this moment, while traveling through so much. 

 

As the final straw of my breaking point, yesterday my car was taken away….again. I was in total shock. It felt like I got hit by a huge wave and I couldn’t breathe. It turned out that God really was asking me to let go of my car, and it was not just a test. At least for now. There is still hope for a recovery. 

 

I don’t know yet if God is going to allow me to get it back, or if He is giving me a new car instead. Honestly, all I have been able to do today is cry. I have so broken, because we are in a hotel room with just a few days paid, and now no vehicle. To top it off, we are in a unfamiliar state that is not our own. 

 

Like every good country song, there is sorrow, and it is often mingled with love. I love country songs, they bring me to a place where I feel oddly comforted by the pain, and the beauty coming together in a story that touches the heart. I love when agony is met with the beauty of love and joy. 

 

This is the update for the moment, and even though there has been tremendous loss, and pain, I have promises from God of a happy ending, AND a payback for all the mistreatment that came from this unexpected storm. 

 

My heart is crushed, but like a lamentation, the bitter tears are swirled together with soothing love, because God has made me a promise for how this will all end. When you are in rock bottom, there is no better place than to look up. 

 

I am looking forward to what God does to swoop in with His next rescue of love. My blog and store are now back to where they were, at diamondsfromthedust.com. The beautiful website that I spent hours building has been deleted and wiped away. 

 

After we get through this journey, I have great hopes to introduce an extremely beautiful new website…and I believe with all of my heart that it will be with the true love husband that God is bringing out to me as well. 

 

Like a true Cinderella story, there are tears, pain, injustice, mistreatment…but in the end there is LOVE. The promise is the happy ending where love changes everything. The battle has already been won. I am singing the song of that love, even at this moment of grief and heartache…and while my heart hurts from being so crushed. I trust that God’s promises will shimmer and shine through the darkness to bring the fulfillment of His beautiful plans. Love will save the day, that is a promise. 

 

Love, 

 

Dannette 

 

https://diamondsfromthedust.com/