Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy…The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy…Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy. Psalm 126
My 8 year old, Tina is still running a low-grade fever (see Moving Mountains). She feels okay, just tired and cranky. She just couldn’t go to VBS this week and possibly infect the other kids, which she was quite upset about! We go back to the doctor next Wednesday to find out the results of the Lyme Disease test, and to determine what else it could be if it’s not that. Thank you so much for all your prayers.
Also, this has been crazy this week because Leah and I have been working at VBS every evening. Then during the day too it has been nonstop with the kids out of school, running errands, driving Leah to her summer mowing job at my parents’, driving Tina to the doctor, house-sitting while my parents are gone. I feel like I am so busy, more than normal, out of control. But then I also feel like God is leading me to each event each day, and giving me the strength I didn’t have to get through it. It’s cool how He carefully and specifically plans my days, even though I think it might be too much. He gives me just what I need to do it, and actually He makes me more intimate with Him as I depend on Him in my chaos.
You know, even though everything is hectic, busy, and I’m worried about Tina, God has given me this irrational, underlying peace and joy that He is with me. Isn’t that awesome!? He is so faithful to give us what we need no matter what we are going through.
For a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold…may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him…you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy. 1 Peter 1:6-8
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!...I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. Isa. 43:18,19
