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Balance 3/19/2008 4:33:10 AM
Balance
By Angela Posey-Arnold
I seek You with all my heart…………… (Psalms 119:10 NIV)
I felt as though I knew him before I actually met him. He was already my brother in Christ and I had never seen him. Everyone in my family had met him except for me. Brother Fred Yazzie had become a household name in my family. On a hot Alabama July day I had the experience to meet him in my home.
12 years ago my parents began a yearly mission trip to the Navajo reservation in Ojo, New Mexico. Ojo United Methodist Church had five members and they needed help in many ways. Over the next twelve years the church has grown to over one hundred members. Their church building is truly a place of worship that they love. Brother Fred is the Pastor.
Because of my disabilities I don’t get to go on the mission trips with my family. The mission continues to grow year by year. They conduct Bible School for the children and adults. They have construction crews who build and repair. Navajos learn about Jesus and His incredible love. It has also become a mission to help the Navajo with their livelihood, sheep. A veterinarian goes and vaccinates the sheep at the sheep camp. Feeding and caring for the sheep and feeding and caring for the shepherds. The mission team demonstrates their love for Jesus by feeding His sheep physically and spiritually.
In 2003 I was slowly recovering from a terrible car wreck. It had been two years since the wreck but I was still trying to recover emotionally and physically. I just couldn’t get back into a balance. I couldn’t adjust to my “new normal”.
My husband was busy building our new log home. I was busy becoming a writer instead of a nurse. I had no idea of the blessing I was about to receive on this July day.
Brother Yazzie had come to Alabama to speak to the churches that send missionaries to Ojo. He made time to come see me. My parents brought him into our home and into my heart. He is Navajo, short in stature but huge in heart and in Spirit. The love of Jesus shines all around him.
We walked up to the new home site where the workers had just finished the new fireplace. As we gathered in front of the fireplace, the heart of our new home, we held hands as he prayed a house blessing. He took some oil and blessed the house by placing the oil on the rocks of the fireplace in the shape of a cross.
We walked back down to the mobile home where we were living. He loved our land and we talked and laughed as we walked.
Before he had to go he asked me to stand up. He asked if he could pray for me. “Of course, please do.” I said.
As I stood up he said, “Now, do what I say and remember to do this everyday.”
This is what he said. “Stand straight and hold your arms out to your side. Straight out. Bow your head and thank Jesus for the angels that He sends to help you. Bring your hands together like you are going to pray. Now look at your hands.”
I opened my eyes and looked at my hands. Even though I thought I had them together with both finger tips touching, they were ‘out of balance’ with one lower than the other. He said, “Bow your head again and put your arms out again. Again he prayed for me. The sweetest prayer I have ever heard.
Then Brother Yazzie said, “Bring your hands together again”. As my head was still bowed I slowly brought my hands together and they were perfectly balanced. He said, “You must stay in balance with Jesus and do this everyday.”
“Every day, stand and put your arms out and tell Jesus how much you thank Him, Praise Him and love Him. Then bring your hands in and as you are ‘in balance’, turn your head to the right and say, ‘Thank You Jesus for the angels you send to the right of me’. Then turn your head to the left and say ‘Thank You Jesus for the angels You send to the left of me’. Thank Him for the angels He sends that are in front of you and behind you. Be in balance with Him everyday. Thank Him and Praise Him.”
Now, when I “get into balance” I turn to the east, just in case when I look up to thank Him one day, He will be there in the clouds.
