Isaiah 1:18
Come now, let us settle the matter,
says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
One gave, that we may have eternal life.
I keep hearing the voice of the Officer.
There’s been an accident.
Is he ok?
silence
I’m sorry.
It plays over and over in my head.
The heart drop feeling.
The moment my life changed forever.
I can remember saying to the officer that God is in control.
He gives and he takes away.
Blessed be the Name of the LORD.
I don’t understand the ways of God.
I can not fathom why he would take such a young man.
My son.
So loved.
My heart aches with wanting answers.
And now my husband.
My sweet, quiet, hard working farmer.
Why?
But, as I have said. . .why not?
Why not my whole family?
James 1:2-4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,
whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
not lacking anything.
God is good because of who He is. . .not because of what He does.
And we are told we would face trials.
That this life would be hard.
What do we do with that trial is how we live and glorify God.
This journey is not easy.
I still would do anything to have Elijah back.
To make our fractured family whole.
But I have died to myself.
It is Christ who lives in me.
And it is in Him that we live and have our being.
It is in Him we have Hope.
So I lay it all down.
I surrender all that I am.
So that Christ may fill my cup.
He is no stranger to our pain.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body,
I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
A drummer in God's Army for sure, "he is fine"……we are not! It is the separation that brings pain…
Ahh, the separation is what brings the pain. Such a twist of knowing he is there. . .yet we remain here. . .