Ever Singing For Joy

Leaning into beautiful scripture. Perfect wind outside. I can hear the birds from my kitchen. Outside the girls have planted zinnias that have grown taller than they are. As the summer heat has beat down on the zinnias, they are beginning to wilt. Life circumstances seem to be the sun beating down on our family at this time. We often feel as if we too are wilting.  The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our Lord will stand forever. Isaiah 40:8 The wind, the birds, and the flowers are all a part of God’s amazing creation. So is the sun. That very same sun that causes the flowers to wither. In His sovereignty, He allows the sun to shine although other parts of His creation will fade. I am a very loved part of His creation but the heart of life circumstances has beat down on our family… all of this happening under His sovereign plan. Many of you can identify with life circumstances that seem to beat down on you.  In the mornings, when the girls are getting up for school

There are no surprises to God.  He is not caught off guard by what He is sovereign over.  His unending love, His power, His presence... It is all a part of His character.  Though these trials that we face can catch us off balance, the fact that God is the rock and the foundation to my soul is the one thing that steadies my heart.  Learning to grow in the truth that He, and He alone, is the foundation on which everything hinges is where my heart finds itself these days. Does that mean it's easy? No. This is absolutely the hardest trial that I'll face and in recent weeks the feeling of struggle and suffering has only increased. There are moments when I find it hard to trust in the plan that the Lord has for me.  There are times that I wonder what's coming around the corner.  The only peace that comes is knowing that God has written this story and has produced it from the beginning and, in ways I won't understand, that by learning to grow in that peace (the kind that only