Daily Inspiration: February 24, 2016 at 05:54AM

Wise word Wednesday: It's for a reason!Once upon a time, there was a young girl, named Fatima, who starts out happily living her life as a spinner. One day she goes on a journey with her father to take their spun yarn to a new market. The ship they are on is wrecked, her father is killed, and she washes up on a shore where a poor fisherman who makes masts for the local boats. He takes her in and teaches her his trade.
One day, while minding her own business, she is captured by pirates who sell her into slavery. She is bought by a clothmaker for his wife, but when he returns home, his house has been vandalized and his family killed. He frees Fatima and teaches her the clothmaking trade. After some time, they set sail with their clothes and, once again, the ship is beset with a storm and sinks. Fatima is cast upon yet another foreign shore, on the one day of the year when government officials are looking for a foreign woman who will be able to make a tent for the Emperor in fulfillment of an ancient prophecy.
Fatima is brought before the Emperor and searches her brain for all of the images of tents she has seen in her travels. She calls for stout cloth, strong rope, and sturdy poles. Of course, they have none of these, so she begins to use all of the skills she has learned in spinning, weaving, and mast-making to produce a tent for the Emperor. The story ends with her marrying the son of the emperor and living happily ever after.

Many times in life we are unable to see the forest among all of the trees. In the midst of your trials there is a greater purpose, a reason you are where you are. Through loss, death, grief, bondage, pain, suffering ... You have a tent that needs to be made from all that you have been through. Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Today create your tent and remember...It's for a reason!
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