Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Safe Thus Far

You want God's promise that nothing bad will happen to you and yours, but Child, you no longer count as severe the truly intense sorrows you have already faced.  And because you now undervalue both their intensity and God's strength that afforded you passage through them, you have not given Him the credit that would afford you a measure of peace now.  The grace that has brought you safe thus far has been underestimated and underappreciated by you.  You laugh, you eat, you sleep, and you are not haunted by the horrors you have faced. 

Trust in the Lord, my dear one.  You are entering a spacious place.  Do not be afraid.  

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
--Deuteronomy 33:27 

This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
--Isaiah 43:16, 18-19

 

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