My Heart is Sad

 

There is so much going on in my world.  So much hurt and pain and sadness.  No, it’s not in my life specifically, but in the lives of my friends and my family.  My heart aches for them.  On Sunday, my status message on Facebook was: Crying.

 

At the time I posted that status, I was in tears and it only got worse from there.  My mom called because of my status message, wanting to know why, so I shared with her what was going on and she proceeded to confirm more sad news with me.

 

I’ve been thinking about the last six to eight months and all the painful things that have happened in the lives around me.

• New Year’s Day a mom of two young girls from was hurt very very badly in a horse related incident
• got a phone call Sunday about a somewhat unexpected death of a family member of one of the fire fire department families.
• threat of job loss and job loss in our church family
• one fire fighter was in a serious accident resulting in broke legs
• another fire fighter family had a death – vehicle collision
• a serious collision involving some teen boys from our church that Jason responded to as a fire dept. member
• a church member’s mother lost her battle with cancer during the holidays
• and that’s just the things I can mention and not listing all the various illnesses and reports of cancer and deaths in  the extended community.

There are a couple of thoughts I have:

1. God has continued to protect our family in all areas and we have not personally experienced any serious loss or hardship this year.
2. I am sure that God is preparing and refining the believers in my community.  HE plans or already is using us for greatness – for HIS glory!  I hate that the refining process hurts so much.
3. I pray that God continues to use HIS people in the community to bring more souls to a right relationship with HIM.  I pray that we get away from religion and strive for relationship.

And I cry for those in the midst of pain and turmoil.

 

Striving to learn and live God's purposes,