Does God know how to use humor to encourage us?
My wife, Honey, has worked as a designer and furniture sales person in a local store for the last eight years. In that time, she has been one of the top sales people in the nation. Her shelves are lined with trophies, and she has won trips to wonderful places.
But the good times ended three years ago when the housing market hit the skids in Southern California. Since then, it has been a down hill plunge for furniture sales.
This morning, Honey’s store begins liquidation sales that will run for sixty days or so. And if you know anything about furniture store liquidation sales, it’s not what you would call a designer’s paradise. It’s more of shark feeding frenzy.
Honey was hoping to skip out on the liquidation sale, but she felt the Lord wanted her to stay. The hours will be long. The customers will be pushy. And sales people will be fighting over customers. Yuck! Yuck! Double yuck!
So, for the last three days, Honey has been moping about with the old “woe is me, goodbye cruel world, but I have to obey God” attitude written all over his face.
However, this morning the Lord gave me a short prophetic dream of the following song for Honey:
To say the least, Honey was touched by the promises offered her in the song. As the psalmist wrote:
I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13
Larry Who 
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This song becomes even more special when you learn that Donna Fargo was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few years after singing this song. Fargo vowed the serious disease would not get her and with her husband’s help has continued to be productive.
I appreciate her bravery, her talent. I appreciate efforts to cheer with her joy and positive enthusiasm. I am glad that Carol found comfort and the will to go on boldly into the employment changes facing her. Go, Carol! I have to share that when my employment was cut off like an arm or a leg with a dull axe, a song presented to me like oh, I don’t know, the ant that moved the rubber tree plant? would have generated a left hook. Maybe that’s just me.
jane,
I would like to think the Holy Spirit would know exactly how to encourage and exhort you…if you needed it.
Now, does this mean Honey would always be willing to listen to a song? No, absolutely not. This is only the second time in thirteen years. The other time, it was Electric Light Orchestra, “Hold on Tight to Your Dreams.”
The Creator is creative.
I would suppose that a liquidation sale in furniture and design, would be a lot like an all you can eat 3 month feature in a restaurant. Glad at the closeness you feel with trudging through the wilderness with coworkers you normally don’t get along with, but elation when it’s finally over!
Ugh… I feel her pain, and strength. I don’t know that my husband would dare to even console me about it though, much less ask me to cheer up! Risky business Larry! Risky business!! 😉