Who would have thought- Part 2

Who would have thought? Great title for today's post. I have intentionally missed three weeks of blogging and posting on social media due to absorbing and adjusting our lives around a new health crisis my family and I entered. This time it's my husband's health that got hit. Needless to say, we both were hit hard at the news. I'll never forget looking into each other's eyes after he hung up the phone three weeks ago. We sat at the dining room table, utterly speechless, eyes rimmed red and flooding with tears. Seventeen years of doing life together, supporting and learning to grow a family together. Seventeen years for better, and now for worse. 

It's a bit jolting to hear the term "malignant" when you are prepared to hear "benign" or any less weighty term describing what the doctor is seeing. It's a bit odd to get hit when you know you are in your prime. 

Can I just say that from the start, the presence of the Lord has been real. From the start, questioning why or doubting the goodness of God has not been in the forefront of our minds. 

Instead, verses have come alive as they so often do in trials. 

"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Phil. 1:6 

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound (overflow, to exceed, abundant, excel more than) in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." Rom. 15:13 

"But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." 1 Peter 5:10

Those verses wouldn't and couldn't take hold if I were unsure of my salvation, unsure if I truly belonged in the family of God. What a relief to know we don't just trust a founder of a religious book like all the other religious books out there. What a source of strength to know we don't walk alone. 

P. S. If you have read this far and would like to leave a comment or word of encouragement, I would appreciate if you kept them here in the blog, and not back on Facebook or Instagram. Just a simple preference I have right now. Thank you and God bless!