I sat at a Home-going service for a 9 year old girl today.
I couldn't help but to hold Anika and Asher extra close. I couldn't help but put myself in Malia's mother's shoes. I couldn't help but grieve over the pain and struggle Malia endured in her battle with cancer. I couldn't help but wonder why God did not answer the prayers of so many of his people in the way we had hoped.
He healed her though. He healed her more completely and more beautifully than any of us can imagine.
It is God's goodness that has held this family together. It is his grace that continues to carry them and protect them under his wings. It is his faithfulness that pours into them, and back out to those of us watching.
God is good. Malia's struggle is over. Her joy has been made complete.
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So, you're wondering... "why the title 'WHEN YOU RISE UP'?" Well, I LOVE the passage in Deuteronomy 6:4-7 where Moses tells God's people the most important things they needed to know... "Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you rise up." (emphasis mine) It's so simple... maybe not easy, but simple. We are to love God with all that we are, and we are to teach our children to love God with all they are. And how are we instructed to do this? Through good conversation! :) How awesome is that? Just through being with our kids, talking to them... using everyday circumstances to take opportunities to teach them about our great God! So, from the time I "rise up" in the morning... my task begins. My privilege.... my ministry... to obey God in what he's given me to do.
Authors I Love
- Gene Stratton-Porter
- Jane Austen
- Edith Nesbit
- C.S. Lewis
- Patricia St. John
- Louisa May Alcott
Favorite Books
- The Hawk and the Dove
- Radical
- The One Factor
- Pride & Predjudice
- Little Women
- Keeper of the Bees
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- A Girl of the Limberlost
- I Capture the Castle
- Fields of the Fatherless
- The Hiding Place
- Emma
About Me
- Corrie
- I love hanging out with my family, being a mom, pursuing God, rainy days, reading, and all things full of sugar. God has given me a passion for marriage, parenting and adoption/orphan care, and I eagerly await seeing what he will do with our family in the future.
2 comments:
I'm sure the service was an amazing celebration, but very hard as well. Good to hear your thoughts.
It was, Maria... so good and so full of God's glory, yet hard and heartbreaking too. Makes me stop everything and thank God for healthy children, instead of taking it for granted.
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