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TRUST THAT STAGEHAND by Niki Turner
When I have a problem, I want God to swoop in like Batman and fix stuff.
I want Him to direct and orchestrate, and be OBVIOUS. But as I continue to walk
with Him, trusting in Him, praying to Him, seeking His will and His ways, I
find more often than not He chooses to play a backstage role in this drama I
call life.
When you go to a live theatrical production and the scene changes, you
don’t see anything happening, but when the lights come back up, everything is
different. The necessary changes have been made to propel the story forward.
Stagehands—lowly, humble stagehands—made that happen. Without them, the story
unfolding on stage would fall flat.
I’ve taken my granddaughter to the ballet twice in her three years.
During one of the scene changes in Swan Lake she asked me, “Is it over?”
No, I assured her. It wasn’t over. It was just time for the great
stagehand to go to work.
In that picture I see an analogy of God’s work in our lives. We pray, we
know what we want to happen, we even think we know His will based on His Word,
but we don’t see Him working. We want
Him to charge in like the proverbial Cavalry, but He doesn’t. And we wait, and
we wonder, and we worry… (Yeah, I know, I’m not supposed to worry, but I do.)
We want Him to charge in like the proverbial Cavalry, but He doesn’t TWEET THIS
We want Him to charge in like the proverbial Cavalry, but He doesn’t TWEET THIS
And then we glimpse a change: an attitude shift, a new character in
motion in someone’s life, a door opening that was closed before, and we know
God is at work. He’s making changes we can’t see, putting the pieces in place
that we don’t know need to be there for what’s ahead, and it’s all working to
fulfill His perfect will.
We can rely on Paul’s words in Philippians 1:6: “…being
confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
You might not always see that “good work” in
motion, but God, backstage, is hard at work, carrying it to completion. TWEET THIS
SANTIAGO SOL by Niki Turner
When a
beloved elderly friend in hospice care makes one final request, Tansy Chastain
can't refuse, even though returning an heirloom to the patriarch of a powerful
Chilean family will take her halfway around the globe. When she's robbed at the
airport, a handsome Santiago businessman comes to her rescue. Sebastian
Sandoval decides escorting a lovely American for a few days is a perfect
distraction from his grandfather's growing pressure to find a lost family
treasure. But even as Tansy breathes new life into Sebastian’s jaded
perspective, the secrets they are keeping put them in the path of a dangerous,
and desperate enemy. Revealing the truth
to each other now will destroy their growing relationship, but if they don’t,
those secrets may destroy their lives.
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Niki Turner is a novelist, journalist, blogger, and the
production manager for the
Rio Blanco
Herald Times weekly newspaper, one of the oldest continuously operating
newspapers in Colorado. Her first completed manuscript earned second place in
the Touched By Love 2009 contemporary category romance contest. She also blogs
at www.nikiturner.net
and is a co-blogger at www.inkwellinspirations.com.
Niki is a Colorado native who grew up in Glenwood Springs—home
of the world’s largest hot springs pool. She married her high school sweetheart
25 years ago. They have four children, four grandchildren, and two West
Highland White Terriers.
In 2014, she published “Sadie’s
Gift” as one of the Christmas
Traditions novella collection with eight other authors. The
Skiing Suitor, one of the Love’s Sporting Chance series published by
Forget-Me-Not Romances, released in August 2015. Her next project, “Santiago
Sol,” will be published by Pelican Book Group, as part of the Passport to Romance novella
collection and releases in October 2015.