Life is Hard

• It’s been a hard week at our house. You know the kind I mean, when your breath barely escapes and your heart threatens to break. One of those weeks, the kind of week that may indeed stretch into forever. Life is hard at times.
  
  I am so thankful to be able to say that my pervasive thought through the fear and through the tears is this: God is so good.

• God is good because He loves me enough to grow me through pain.
• He is good because He does what is best for me even when I disagree.
• He is good because all my life He has prepared me for this trial… and the next...and the next…
• God is good because He always provides even in the pain:
  
  through His love
  through His Word
  through friends
  through family
  through laughter
  through tears

So today, life is hard but God is good. Thus, my heart can’t help but sing:

Blessed Be Your Name

Blessed be Your name in the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
And blessed be Your name when I’m found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be your name

Every blessing You pour out I’ll turn back to praise
And when the darkness closes in Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name when the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s “all as it should be”
Blessed be Your name
And blessed be Your name on the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

You give and take away You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

God is good. He is my foundation, my treasure, my wisdom, my comfort, and amazingly, He is my friend. He is everything.

Blessed be Your name, O Lord.