Moments with Meryl
by Meryl Langley

It’s been a long time since I wrote about some "moments with Meryl." Even now, before putting pen to paper, this is my thinking: How can YOU be writing anything at present? Look at you, you’re in a real mess. You’ve no life in you, there’s so much needs sorting out; you’ve lived a certain way and thought negatively for so long it’s automatic like breathing. It’s too hard to do things differently. There’s a backlog at work to clear, relationships at home need dealing with. OK. OK. THAT’S ENOUGH! STOP THERE! Just because life FEELS hard now, doesn’t mean Christ can’t BE through me for others; why don’t you get writing? So maybe Satan’s misused me of late, but not from this minute. Christ is my operator and always has been, even with all the negative stuff going on. Nothing is impossible to Him and therefore if change is required I KNOW He as me can change. Of course, the real issue is, if I work longer hours at the hospital, I’ll need to give up MY time, MY space, MY way of doing things. So what? Think about those you know who have been unwilling at one point to believe the truth: we are earthen vessels containing the treasure, the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at your mother, at the end of her life on earth you can physically see the pain and destruction of Satan misuse. Surely that’s incentive enough, Meryl, to make the right choice. Not only that, you know you don’t really enjoy the consequences of having YOUR own way (really Satan’s). You know you thrive on challenge. You’re not controlled by your mother anymore, so see to it no one and nothing else robs you of being Christ controlled. Let Christ control you and your life again. Of course Christ-I can write a few "moments with Meryl." Once more I even FEEL the life flowing through my veins. Must hurry, I’ll be late for work. RS. What a difference it made to my day having these few moments. ChristI was living and believing this truth. I accomplished things on the word processor today I wouldn’t have even contemplated before. I also agreed to work extra hours and on the home front Christ-I restored control, initiated changes, and saw to it they were carried out. All this as a result of those few "moments."