Melvina Wilson - Tangled: A Web in the Closet!

Tangled in the Web

L ife is full of bumps and snares as we journey through life. As you observe the life of a spider as it does the webbing, you can see that when it runs into a bump that gets in its way, it uses that bumpmost likely as an object that can be for substanceto help it get closer to its destiny, or it can be a barrier to keep it from moving forward.

The spider sucks out what is useable from the insects that get caught in the web, and when it is done with that, it weaves another road in a different direction to continue on its journey; therefore we see the webbing. That bump only caused a delay.

So as it is with life, it is like a spider web. You think you are moving the right direction, but then you run into a snare, but God has the power to get us loose and send us on our way because God is with you even when you are tied up in bad situations.

So is lifes journey for all of us; when we run into a snare, we have an anchor that keeps the soul, and its steadfast and unmovable and sure. When we encounter bumps or better still, situations that come to hinder the process on our journey, we also either allow them to frustrate us to the point of no return, or it will charge us to push forward with more determination to continue to fight a little harder to win the victory.

Our start on lifes journey is purposeful; however, it is not always easy or always a straight path to get to where we are headed. There are many inconsistencies and distractions, as one will surely encounter, which makes it harder to move closer to your destination. As you start on lifes journey, you may have one focus in mind, one destination in mind: that you hope and plan for life, and somehow, in the midst, you end up at a dead-end street.

Therefore you have to recalculate and sometimes head in a totally different direction. Unfortunately all of the circumstances will cause you to decide if you want to continue or just throw up your hands and quit. However, there is an old saying, and I quote, winners dont quit, and quitters dont win. So it may seem as if you are at an impasse, but your situation will cause you to move forward if you really want what you are aiming for.

God never told us that life would be easy, but he did promise that he is our present help and that he will never leave us or forsake us. These are two verbs that we need to keep in mind as we go from day to day. To leave means he wont walk away, and to forsake means to abandon. We know that God will never do those two things to us.

Although sometimes its hard to remember the Scriptures when you are faced with a bump in the road, especially when you had in mind that what you chose for life is the right decision; you have prayed about it and thought you heard from God. But now nothing is working the way you planned. What do you do? Ask the Savior to help! What do you do when the relationship that you thought God put together is falling apart? For example: I cant imagine anyone going in a relationship with a mindset that it wont last, at least I hope not.

If or when you encounter a tough point in life and you make the decision to continue on the journey of your choice and its still not working, it may be that you have to weave in a different direction to get to where you are going, because your aim is to get to the promised finish line. It may be that you had to do something totally different from what you had in mind when you first started out.

However, if your life goal is to get the thing you are aiming for, dont quit. It may mean that you must make the choice of fighting the good fight of faith a little harder and stay in the situation or decide that this journey is not for you and get out. But for heavens sake, dont waste half of your life before you decide to do something about your situation. Thats not fair to yourself or to anyone.

If you decide that you dont want to continue where you are, make a plan for your future and pick up the pieces and move on. Sometimes in life we make mistakes, and thats fine. But mistakes can be changed or fixed most of the times. Sometimes they can be learning point or stepping-stones to the next place in life. Although it may mean moving on with or without some things or someone. Use lifes mishaps as learning points for your next move. You may be hurt, but by all means dont sit there and die.

When you know that God is in charge of you in what you go through in life, you somehow get strength to hold on in troubling times. There is an inner voice that speaks thats so different from any other voice that if you pay attention and follow, you cant go wrong. The scripture says, My sheep knows my voice, a stranger he wont follow. Yes, even if you made a bad decision, whether spiritually or mentally, dont allow them to make you miss your goal. Keep moving toward your destiny. Sure you are webbing your way around, through, over, and sometimes under, but you must continue if you are to win.

Most of the time it is not obvious that you are moving forward, only because God is ordering your steps. Sometimes he is carrying you. You will find yourself, from time to time, webbing in areas you didnt have on the agenda, but they are helpful to you. Use them for your good.

You must have determination to get to your destiny even as Paul wrote in Acts 27:44 (KJV), Some onboards and some on broken pieces of the ship, and it came to pass that they all made it safe to land, and none were lost. Im not speaking on how it feels or how it looks, but how you trust.

She confessed that the webbing on her journey was very hard, but she made it. She can now look back and see how God was there all the time.

Go with me now on this journey as the story begins

This story begins as Daisy grew up as a child whose father passed away before she was born. Her mother was seven months pregnant when he came home from playing baseball on a hot summer day and dropped dead. So she grew up in a small town around all of her relatives. They spoiled her because she was the last of that crew.

She had relatives on every corner. That was fine when she was young, but as she became a teenager, it wasnt easy for her to do the things that the other kids her age were doing. I dont mean bad things: things like going to the club and sneaking to the socials at school. She was into every sport that a girl could play; that was her passion. She was to go directly home after school.

As time went on, her mother remarried and had three other children. She ended up with six brothers; and it was four girls. However, by the time she was old enough to realize, her three older brothers were drafted in the army.

She was always a happy child because all she saw was a loving family. To this day she talks about her loving upbringing. All through school she was active in the things of the school: sports, choir, plays, etc. In retrospect, it seems as if the Lord has always dealt with her. She remembers, as a sixand seven-year-old, having to go with her mom to different homes of people before she had breakfast to blow on a sick child and the child would be healed. She hated it.

However, she was baptized along with a group of other young people in a river in the town where she attended church, because the church that she attended did not have a pool, and was saved at age nine; she continues to walk with the Lord till this day.

She was a student who loved school and never wanted to miss a day. She remembers, as an elementary student and a farmers daughter, she was told one day she had to stay home and help on the farm. She cried all day. Finally her mother told her stepfather, You have to let this gal go to school. He agreed.

She never missed another day. She was very happy about that. All through high school she was a person who was very popular, as one would say. She could never get away with anything; after all, her cousin was the principal, and one of her teachers saw her mother in church every Sunday.