My family is overwhelmed with the beautiful outpouring of messages, prayers and offerings of help and so much support. I remember writing my new years blog last year and telling 2013 good-bye and so relieved to do so...it had been a difficult year and we had just buried my father and it hadnt been long since we told my brother good-bye too. Little did I know that 2014 would be the most difficult year of my life thus far. Here we are, a year later, saying good-bye to our beloved niece, Aleta and life does go on. In all of the sufferings, loss, trials and hard things of these past couple of years (and it has seemed endless those trials) if there is one thing Ive come to better understand it is grace. I cannot truly understand Gods love for us - we tainted and selfish humans. But He does and He loves us perfectly and completely. So much so that we are covered in His righteousness and therefore, we are no longer tainted but made spotless and pure...the only thing in us- the only good in us - the only thing worth anything in us is Christ. And in all of the sufferings and crying out and immense times of heaving great sorrow...God has been filling my soul with spiritual things that are of greater value than anything humanly felt...including life itself. To know God truly as the One who will still your soul and the One who satisfies the deepest longings of the heart...there is no greater thing. I do not have answers for much. I do not understand the whys as to the sufferings of the world. But I do know that I am desperate for Gods undeserved mercy and grace. It is because of grace - not getting what we deserve, being excused from our debt, that we have life - and have it abundantly. It doesnt hold back the sorrows of this world, it does not mean that you will be immune to suffering...it actually will increase...but it will refine that grace in you - you will better long for it because so much will be sifted down in your life. You will realize that nothing and no one will ever compare or be able to fulfill you as God does. He created you to be filled by Him - satisfied fully by Him. And this is why I do what I do. This is why I continue to reach out and minster in any way God allows to the wounded and weary. This is why I spend much of my life walking alongside other women. This is why my writing is consumed with His truths. This is why I am a bond-servant to Christ and why I depend upon Him for protection, provision and purpose. This is why I can stand amidst so many trials, heartaches and losses. This is why I worship...because there is a God worthy of all that I am
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:31:48 +0000
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