Exerpted from: A Woman's Journey to the Heart of God (Virtue Magazine - Feb/March, 1999)
~ How busy Bible study leader and speaker Cynthia Heald makes time to sit at Jesus' feet ~
An interview by: Linda Piepenbrink

Have there been times when you said, God, what are you doing? How can this be your will?           Yes, I first asked that question when I was 26 and had three children in three years. I'm not really a baby person. I love children when they're a little older. Here I had two in diapers and a toddler, and Jack was a busy veterinarian, so he wasn't home to help. Plus, we'd moved to a new town where I didn't know anybody, and our house was infested with rats. That's when I gave up. What do you mean?           I've heard life described as a car we're given to drive down the highway. When I was 12 years old, I stopped my car and asked Jesus Christ to come into my life as my Savior; He got into the car with me, but I kept driving. So it wasn't until I had three children, a busy husband, and a house with rats, that I said, God, I give up. In essence, I knew He was tapping me on the shoulder and asking me to move over; He wanted to take over the steering wheel in my life. And you know what happened? Absolutely nothing changed in my circumstances! We lived in that old house with the rats for four more years. Jack still had his veterinary practice, and I still had my three children. But inwardly, everything changed. What exactly changed?           I didn't have this phenomenal experience. It was just that I could rest. I was no longer in charge of my life. God took over, similar to the Greyhound bus commercial that says "Ride the bus and leave the driving to us." My life is no longer my life; it's God's life. Too often we find ourselves broken down, lost and stranded on a dark, lonely highway in the middle of nowhere through the course of our life. All we have to do is turn the wheel over to Jesus. Stay in His light, ask His direction, listen carefully for His instruction - then obey His voice. We'll find ourselves less and less needing His wrecker-services! Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12

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