I just love our book this month and I am so grateful for the earlier blog posts from Joyce and Marie. Janet Horton has written eloquently about her experience in the military. She writes with warmth and naturalness and without pretence.
I am especially impressed by her ability to speak with authority. An example is on page 104 where, following an incident she 'knew instantly [she] needed to turn to God for a more harmonious sense of what was happening'. She then asked her 'very upset' colleague 'not to speak' because she absolutely needed to pray about having slammed a car door on her hand.
As a result of having 'immersed [herself] in the sense of God's omnipotence and omnipresence', she soon completely forgot about her hand until her colleague asked her about it an hour later. The hand was completely healed, much to the confusion of her colleague.
I am reminded of Biblical references to 'authority', for example the following:
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
(Luke 9:1, 2)
This authority is still current in the twenty-first century. It is for all disciples of Jesus in all time.
Julie Swannell
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