Introductions

We lay close.  The Hunter holds my hand as tears stain my pillow again.  I struggle to grasp hold of hope and am desperate to rest in the goodness of God.  Goodness so real that I have felt it earlier this very day.  Too easily my mind is overcome by the struggle.  What is my struggle?  Presently, it is infertility and the heartache adjoined to it. “Infertility” a word that not long ago I could barely verbalize due to the pain it caused.  Now it is a catalyst for this very blog.

 We all have them (struggles that is); sometimes they are petty and sometimes they are severely deep.  I can think of many deep struggles being faced today by others nearby such as severe disabilities, unexplainable depression, sudden illness, grief caused by the death of a dearly loved one, marriages on the brink of divorce, and limitations caused by aging bodies.  Maybe I have listed your struggle…then again maybe I have not.  I can’t adequately write about your struggle.  Each is profoundly personal. What I can do is share with you mine.  As I write, it is my prayer that you will see the goodness of God and be encouraged and strengthen to face your struggle, however weighty or trivial it may be. 

God IS good all the time!  In days of sunshine and nights of tear stained pillows.  His ways are not our ways. For his thoughts are higher than our thoughts.  Still, in the arrogance of a child, I on occasion fully think that I know best and perhaps He has mistaken.  Yet, He IS Good. 

Could it be that there are things He sees that I do not?  Perhaps His purposes and desires differ from mine?  Will I trust Him?  The larger underlying question maybe…Is God trustworthy?  I have many reasons that cause me to believe He is definitely trustworthy!  Is it possible you have reasons too or are you skeptical and uncertain?  Either way, I invite you to travel with me as I journey through this present struggle.  Who knows what is around the next corner?

  Isaiah 55:6-9 (ESV)

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Psalm 10:17 (ESV)

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart