This afternoon, things were just not going my way. I was feeling discourage and frustrated. I selected Laura Story’s song Bless the Lord on my MP3 and wow did the lyrics speak God’s truth to me:
You give and take away for my good
For who am I to say what I need?
For You alone see the hidden parts of me
that need to be stripped away.
And as You begin to refine
I’m learning to let go and rely
on One who walks with me
As hard as it may be,
You’re teaching me all the while to say:
Bless the Lord, O my soul
All that’s in me bless Your name
Forget not Your power un- told
not Your glory or Your fame
For You came to heal the broken
to redeem and make me whole
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
The first line just hit me….. “You give and take away for my good”. I’ve sorta felt like God has taken away from me this week……..Things I thought were done, were not. There are more families in the waiting family pool than I had thought, which means our wait will probably be longer. And the fees are about $2500.00 more than what I had calculated. None of these are really major things…….but perhaps God is teaching me……. “For who am I to say what I need? For You alone see the hidden parts of me that need to be stripped away.”
House of Smooches 