Hello, and welcome to Grace Across Borders. My name is Tameka.
This is a space where the Bible meets folklore. And both meet our everyday lives.
The lessons we were taught growing up. The sayings we heard. They are not far from Scripture.
When we slow down, we begin to see the connection.
Here, we look at the Word. We look at those stories. Then we look at our lives.
And many times, we realize we are living what we have read all along.
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The Silent Rizpah
Some seasons do not come with clear instructions.
There is no breakthrough.
No big moment.
No visible answer from God.
Just staying.
In 2 Samuel 21:1–14, we meet a woman most people overlook, Rizpah, Saul’s concubine.
During the reign of King David, her sons are taken and executed. While everything moves on, Rizpah does something that feels almost impossible.
She stays.
She spreads sackcloth on a rock and remains there day after day and night after night.
She keeps the birds away by day.
She keeps the animals away by night.
No crowd.
No recognition.
No promise that anything will change.
She does not speak.
Not one recorded word.
But her actions speak loudly.
Her staying reaches David. He hears what she has done and responds. Honor is restored.
And then Scripture tells us that God responded to the land.
Not after a speech.
Not after a plan.
But after someone stayed.
The Woman and the Tree
There is an old story about a woman who sat beneath a tree everyone believed was dead.
The people told her to leave it alone. They said it was over.
But she kept showing up.
She cleared the ground around it.
She protected it from animals.
She stayed close through the night.
People laughed at her.
They asked why she stayed with something that had no life left.
She did not argue.
She did not explain.
She just stayed.
Seasons passed. The rain came.
And slowly, new leaves began to grow.
The same people who laughed came back to sit under its shade.
When they asked her why she stayed, she said,
Some things do not need noise. They need someone who will not leave.
My Moment
This kind of faith is not easy.
We like movement.
We like progress.
We like to see something happening.
But this kind of faith looks like stillness.
Not peaceful stillness. The kind where you stay because leaving would mean letting go too soon.
I have had moments like that.
Times where I was tired of the appointments. Tired of waiting. Tired of not knowing what comes next.
If I am honest, I feel lost at times.
I try to walk in God’s will, but sometimes failure still comes. No matter how hard I try.
Giving up is not an option. So I keep trusting God to lead and direct my life.
This does not feel like failure in the usual way. It feels like I have been trying, but forgetting that it is not my will. It is His.
God made promises to me.
And yet, I am facing a procedure because of ongoing health issues. That tension is real.
From the beginning, I said this blog would be honest.
And it is.
But I am learning that honesty does not always mean saying everything.
The story of Rizpah stayed with me.
She did not explain herself.
She did not defend herself.
She did not try to make others understand.
She just stayed.
And something shifted in me when I accepted that.
The moment I decided I would not explain everything, it felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders.
Maybe this is a season where God is calling me to be still. And to be silent.
Not because nothing is happening.
But because He is not finished yet.
Just like Rizpah on the rock.
Just like the woman by the tree.
Sometimes grace shows up in the staying.
Let us continue to pray for God’s will in our life.
Prayer
Dear Lord Jesus,
Please teach me how to stay when everything in me wants to walk away.
Give me strength for the seasons that feel still and unseen.
Remind me that You are working, even when I do not see movement.
Help me to trust You, even in the silence.
Amen.
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