For such a time as this...

Well, it's been a while since I posted, and that's because things have been so busy! We just finished up a week of revival meetings at church. This was the first year that I really just wasn't as excited as normal about it. Life is alot more hectic during this week, we run home after work, change clothes, eat dinner and head out the door, back to Niceville, where it seems we just left. I've also been fighting off a little nauseousness, which would make it very easy to just stay home and rest. The week has been refreshing though, and I've been encouraged and admonished in ways that I seriously needed. There was one night, when the preacher was talking about his daughter-in-law, and how she was told she'd never have children. He said she read 1 Samuel chapter 1 every day and just begged God for a child. She promised God that if he'd give her a child she'd give him all the glory. He told her we shouldn't offer God our praise because he gives us what we want. We need to praise God for who he is. That is enough. Well, I don't know all the details, but long story short she is pregnant today! About two months along, same as me. I just sat in the pew and wept. It's amazing to me how we're people all over the country, I'm sure all over the world yet we feel the same, and have the same thoughts. I too have read 1 Samuel chapter one over and over again. I knew that if God did that for Hannah he could do it for me too. I too promised God he'd receive all the glory from our conception. I wish I could say I did everything right, I know I haven't, but I did come to the place where I realized that God will be enough. I just thank God for being who he is. He is righteous, He is Holy, He is just, yet the Bible says that God is love. On this same note, I was listening to an old CD today and a song played that really touched my heart. I hope that through my experience I will one day be able to help someone else with a trial that they feel they just can't make it through. I will leave you with the words to this song, and remember, it's about any trial you may face in life, whether physically, emotionally or spiritually. Why did I walk through the valley? Why was I forced to my knees? Why did the sun parch and dry me, as I walked through the desert of defeat? Then came the clouds and the rain fell, I thought I'd never make it through the night, but God gave me the answer when I prayed with you, He let me see the dark, to hold a light I can kneel with a brother, who is bearing a burden, and say I know just what you're going through, I can pray with a sister in the midst of her sorrow, and say I know because I've been there too. I can put my arms around someone who is down, and tell them to have faith and confidence, what in pain I could not see, I now fully believe, God prepared me for such a time as this You may be praying for answers, You are facing temptation and trial, troubles are endlessly present, and the purpose is somewhere in God's time, Just keep on walking the good road, Night leads to a stronger wiser day, and when you're asked the reason for this path you have trod, you can know without a doubt and you can say I can kneel with a brother, who is bearing a burden, and say I know just what you're going through, I can pray with a sister in the midst of her sorrow, and say I know because I've been there too. I can put my arms around someone who is down, and tell them to have faith and confidence, what in pain I could not see, I now fully believe, God prepared me for such a time as this