“Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gal! My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. BUT this I call to mind, and therefore I have HOPE. The steadfast love of the Lord NEVER ceases, his mercies are NEW every morning. Great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, therefore I WILL hope in him.
Lamentations 3: 19-24
In the last 9 months I have found myself in a season of complete newness as a new mom. I love being a Mom to my daughter Laine but it is also one of the hardest things I have ever done. Almost everything in my life now looks different. As soon as I feel like I have this whole thing of being a Mom figured out Laine learns a new skill or two in just a day's time and leaves me feeling like I am back to square one and I really do have NO IDEA what I am doing. But I also know that God has fully equipped me to be Laine’s Mom even when I struggle to trust him. God is so near to me in the sweet moments of giggles and hugs and the really hard moments of teething, middle of the night wake ups and fear.
With a new season I have found myself in a season of lamenting, lamenting and grieving what life as I knew it looked like and the easy comfort I found while also having so much joy. What I have found to be true is God’s deep desire for his children to draw near to him in those moments of doubt, fear and confusion.
We serve a God who is always near and full of grace, but in those moments we have a choice to make, will we trust him and draw near or will we attempt to “fix it” all on our own? I am thankful we serve a God who is in the hard, messy moments of life with us in our broken world and that we can have hope in Jesus! I pray that we would remember the Gospel of Jesus Christ daily and that it would change the way we live!
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