The days rush by like a hurricane-- information and test results and procedures and probable diagnoses slapping against me and whirling around me at a maddening speed, bending me and breaking off my branches so that I am stripped bare.
I am tired. Ironically, it is in my exhaustion that I find strength I did not know I had. When I am bent so far I think I will snap in two, I have nowhere else to turn but up. I see my God-- the One who whispers, “Be strong and courageous, for I am with you.” He does not promise ease; however, He does promise life. And it is this chapter of my life that has changed me. With new eyes, I see the things that matter. And so-- I push forward. I do the hard things. Even if I cannot count it all easy, I can count it all joy. My friends, consider yourselves fortunate when all kinds of trials come your way, for you know that when your faith succeeds in facing such trials, the result is the ability to endure. Make sure that your endurance carries you all the way without failing, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all. James 1:2-5♥
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