Blog 270 – 04.11.2016

The beautiful red-headed singer Bonnie Raitt released a song in the late nineteen eighties called Nick Of Time. It is a beautiful song especially the line: “We found love, Darling, love in the nick of time.” Just in case you are unfamiliar with the expression “nick of time” it means at just the right time or at the last moment.

In a great autobiographical book called The Hiding Place the author Corrie Ten Boom tells of how her family hid Jews in their home in the Netherlands from the Nazis during World War Two. Corrie and her sister were imprisoned and ended up in the notorious German concentration camp Ravensbruck. It is a great read about courage and the power of forgiveness. Corrie shared a story from her childhood that I have carried around many years. She was expressing her nervousness and fear about what might happen to her and her family and her dad said to her when you were a little girl and we travelled by train when did daddy give you you ticket? She answered, “Just before we boarded the train.” Her dad went on to say that he believed that they would each be given the courage, strength, grace that they needed when they needed it – in the nick of time.

One U.S. President before I started this adventure was so loved by a majority of Americans that he was elected four times to the highest office in the land. He held that office through some pretty hard and scary times and during a particularly scary time he told the people whom I think he genuinely loved in return, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Those words and FDR himself came to us in the nick of time when we needed them most.

Last Thursday, in a blog entitled The Flow, I shared my personal mantra:

“I am so grateful that everything that I could ever want or need is already mine and coming to me at just the right time and in just the right way from my Loving and Infinite Source.”

I think often that we stress and worry when the answer, the provision, the missing ingredient is on the way and scheduled to arrive in the nick of time. Have a little faith we are not in this alone, Somebody has our back.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White