This evening I ran across one of Marilou’s journal entries from our time in Brazil last year. Please note that very last sentence. The Lord has a way of answering our prayers in ways we can not anticipate.

Monday July 10th – Went to the mountain in the morning. We brought chairs and stayed… This time we felt more of God’s presence. There was a quiet, and a shadow. I read some, and sang, and listened to music. I watched the birds circling and flying – I thought, I prayed – I really looked up and on the hill is a cross – Everything was done at the cross – My desire is to fly above all the stuff.

In our time in Brazil last July, Marilou came away with a greater hunger for the manifest presence of God, because she experienced it in real and tangible ways there… many times she shared with me her deepening desire for His presence, and her great burden to see that presence come here to our city of Monroe, Washington, and this Sky Valley area. My prayer is that she still might see that… just from her heavenly perspective. One of the greatest blessings of my life, was to have her there and see the affect that the presence of God brought to her life.
I think in some way, her longing for Him was so deep after those days, that her Heavenly Father could resist her longing no longer and ushered her in to His presence … where she longed to be. There is not regret for that… it is where we are made to be… in His Presence