moved from the only place she had ever known to a new home and new people. mom, dad, sister killed in a typhoon, orphaned at 8. Then, to my immediate left, Angela’s hand slipped into the air. and every single one of those people I just named were singing those lines and praising His name. a mom who lost her only son to drugs and mental illness. a widow who lost her husband tragically at a very young age. Further over in the sanctuary, someone battling terrifying family issues. I looked just a little past him and saw a woman with chronic health issues, head raised toward the heavens as she sang. Just as those thoughts filled my head, my gaze fell on a young widower in our church. As we did that song today, I marveled at how different my life COULD BE today if those test results had come back different. And then I remembered that a year ago right now, I had just ended a scary series of tests and wait to see if a tumor was malignant or benign, and then that just six months later, I was waiting for more tests on the same tumor, this time surgically removed. I got emotional, as I always do, because He HAS been so faithful all my life, He has been SO GOOD. ![]() As we were singing the part that says,Īnd all my life You have been so, so good ![]() We did that Bethel music song, “Goodness of God” in praise and worship. ***And I clearly wasn’t the only one, because when Dawn got up to give the welcome, she danced around the very topic that God was addressing in my own heart, though she had a slightly different point that she made today. This probably won’t be a very long one, but it’s one of those crystal clear moments I had today where I could see directly into the heart of this belief system of mine and I want to document it for the times it won’t seem as free from “self” as it did today.
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