Great is Your faithfulness!

It amazes me...He amazes me. His faithfulness. His trustworthiness. His tender care. His love...Him, Love itself.

After a few days of intense internal struggle, I find myself lifted above it all. Able, once again, to see the greatness of God. My hand in His I am truly lifted up on “wings like eagles” (Isaiah 40:31).

The oppressive dark cloud was overwhelming me...to the point that I felt constricted, constrained, confined - unable even to pray. And yet...

And yet, in the midst of that trial I was able to reach out – to call out with my heart – to God. And to reach out to my husband, and others, to ask them to pray with and for me. I also was able to stretch my will, exercise it, use it to choose to do what I did not feel like doing. Opening the bible - my husband by my side – we began to delve into the Word of God. Speaking it- listening to it. Seeking to make it part of us. And at that moment the cloud lifted. It was as if a physical burden had been taken from me. The difference was palpable.

What made the difference? The prayers that were being offered for me at that exact moment by my mother and little niece? Speaking and absorbing God's own words? Or was it the mere fact of my act of will – that tiny act of subjugation of my emotions to the truth – to the good – to the holy? Perhaps it was all three.

And now my heart and soul can once again glory in God my Savior – God, my loving and merciful Father – my Daddy. And now I can cry out with a joyful heart and see His loving presence everywhere and in everything.

Truly, “the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning (and every night, and every afternoon and....); great is your faithfulness.” (Lam 3:22-23)