He is Faithful

Thank you all for your prayers; I have yet to understand how or why prayers work, I just know that God is alive and real. This week has gone by relatively smoothly, and I am so thankful! Today is/was the official due date of our baby, and I have felt peace in it.

Sometimes life doesn't paint the picture we would have painted, sometimes the road before us is nothing like what we would have chosen. Sometimes even God's promises to us come to pass differently than we had envisioned in our minds. But He is faithful and good.

Although I don't view the Lord as someone who strikes us with tragedies to teach us a lesson, I know with certainty that if we let Him, He will make something beautiful from every hardship - and, as I said, sometimes that doesn't look like what we expect.

He may not make our desert a lush paradise, but He will at least provide rivers and a path through the wilderness while we journey through it. Thank you for being part of the refreshing for me.

Isaiah 43:

18 “ Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.

²⁰ The beast of the field will honor Me,
The jackals and the ostriches,
Because I give waters in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert,
To give drink to My people, My chosen.

²¹ This people I have formed for Myself;
They shall declare My praise.