Planted Firm
I ain't gonna' lie. . . the last few months have been HARD at times for me and my family. Don't get me wrong--there have been a lot of good, wonderful, AWESOME moments, too. Amazing, irreplaceable moments. However, almost immediately after our book was released, we started facing serious challenges in several areas of our lives--too many to list here. Yesterday was a doozy of a day, where it seemed like the sum of so many issues came at me all at once. Ever had a season like that? A day like that? Not fun.
I have been so grateful for friends and family and coworkers who have helped me to keep my eyes heavenward these past few months. I have had my ugly moments of whining and crying. I admit that. In this past week, however, as things got harder to bear, and frankly I was just so TIRED, my roots began to grow and stretch again, digging deeper into the fertile soil below me. Forgive the mix of metaphors, but when all around me seemed depleted and dry, my heart went in search of my bedrock.
Friends and family helped to point me there and I found myself today stopping for moments of prayer instead of pity. Faith instead of fear. I will choose to lean on God as I have throughout so many other seasons, and trust in his mighty promises for me. He is faithful whether rain falls at home, at work, in the lives of my family, in the lives of my friends. . . Winds can blow and rip and tear at this house. Storms can wake and shake me. But I will be planted firm by streams of living water, day by day by day until He comes for me to take me Home.
The world is sometimes dark, friends, but I carry the powerful, mighty light of God. So, I choose to lift my head and walk like it, to let that light guide the way. :)
These two songs have been a tremendous blessing to me lately. . . enjoy
"Even If" by Mercy Me
"Whatever Comes" by Rend Collective
I have been so grateful for friends and family and coworkers who have helped me to keep my eyes heavenward these past few months. I have had my ugly moments of whining and crying. I admit that. In this past week, however, as things got harder to bear, and frankly I was just so TIRED, my roots began to grow and stretch again, digging deeper into the fertile soil below me. Forgive the mix of metaphors, but when all around me seemed depleted and dry, my heart went in search of my bedrock.
By Mr Poortom - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3741079
Friends and family helped to point me there and I found myself today stopping for moments of prayer instead of pity. Faith instead of fear. I will choose to lean on God as I have throughout so many other seasons, and trust in his mighty promises for me. He is faithful whether rain falls at home, at work, in the lives of my family, in the lives of my friends. . . Winds can blow and rip and tear at this house. Storms can wake and shake me. But I will be planted firm by streams of living water, day by day by day until He comes for me to take me Home.
By Wing-Chi Poon [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The world is sometimes dark, friends, but I carry the powerful, mighty light of God. So, I choose to lift my head and walk like it, to let that light guide the way. :)
These two songs have been a tremendous blessing to me lately. . . enjoy
"Even If" by Mercy Me
"Whatever Comes" by Rend Collective
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