WORTH THE WAIT!

You know those moments in time where you just get chills because you know without a doubt, God has placed someone right smack in the middle of your path... in the most unexpected way... to answer prayers in ways you never could have dreamed?  Well, I had one of those moments today and I honestly believe my life will never be the same again. 

I am overwhelmed with the answer to prayer that arrived this morning and I am celebrating so far down in my soul that I can almost taste heaven tonight!  God is up to something amazing and today He loved me right where I was so much that He wanted to give me a hint! 

Not sure where you are tonight.  Not sure if you are losing hope in something you have been praying for in faith for a long time... but I can testify yet again... God's plan is hands down, without a doubt WORTH THE WAIT!  You hang in there and watch him boggle your mind.

Tomorrow, a sweet friend faces a hard day as their precious loved one is laid to rest far too young.  As a friend quoted on facebook this week.... one of those moments where the period comes in the middle of the sentence.  My heart aches for them and the difficult road ahead. 

But today, while they are in the middle of their deepest grief... a grief I do not know on their level, but remain all too familiar with on my level... right in the middle of that.... God shakes things up and sets a course on fire for His glory. 

We don't understand the loss.  Mark's children will forever wonder why their daddy had to leave earth so soon.  His wife will have many painfully lonely nights where her heart hurts so bad she will be sure it might explode.  His mom and dad and sister will never fill the void of his absence where his presence has always been.  But.  Still.  Even so.  God's glory is still showing up.  And somehow as I hurt so deeply for what they cannot begin to fathom... what I still struggle with understanding when those waves of emotions hit me out of nowhere and I just want to hold my son, smell his smells, squeeze his chubby little arms, and kiss him until he belly laughs...I find hope in the fact that His glory even still shows up. 

Tomorrow I will wake up hurting for the pain they are enduring.  And I will wake up with goose bumps all over again when my thoughts return to what God has begun today.  And when the sadness and joy collide into an explosion of emotions that cannot be explained, I will simply remember... God's glory will somehow show up.  Always has.  Always will.

I am blessed.  Whether you know it or not you are too.  God plays no favorites.  His son died for us all so that we all might live.  I am jumping on and staying on that cool ride.  Come on!  Go with me!  No matter where you are in joy or pain or somewhere in between.  Because from whatever view we are looking... mountain top or darkest valley... God is one glorious sight to behold. 

And He loves you.

Robin