Faithful

I wrote this post several weeks ago, but never published it. I can't believe the situations that God works in, so. beautiful. He's answered my prayer in terms of my health and healing. He didn't answer in the way that I wanted, but He answered. He is so faithful. We've since finished reading the book mentioned below, and it's my favorite, not only for my kids, but for me.

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Every day, me, Eden, and Micah, sit down on the couch and pull a blanket across all three of our laps. We open up one of the fifty books we check out weekly from the library, and we sit and read and read. Every few days, we pull out a new favorite, The Story for Children.

I was shocked at the theme as we read yesterday, mostly from Exodus. The theme, over and over and over, God is faithful, God is faithful, God is faithful.

See, I've been down lately. My body just isn't recovering from this whole miscarriage ordeal, and I've been discouraged at the amount of time that's past. I'm sensitive too. I love friends talking about babies, hearing about babies, anything to do with babies, but I cry. Really easily. It's a little piece of my heart that is so tender and sensitive.
As Eden, Micah, and I have been reading, that theme of 'God is faithful', has been beautifully haunting me. Like when God promised Abraham and Sarah a child, and they waited 40 years; or when the Israelites waited outside the promised land, waited for 40 years outside of it in the desert. He was there, and he continually provided for His people. It wasn't always in ways they expected, but He was so faithful to them.
Often when I read the Bible, I look for a promise, a statement of hope, or perhaps some word of encouragement. Never do I look to the stories of the Old Testament, and yet, it's there.

I've been listening to the song "In Christ Alone" on repeat. The words:
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm

What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless Babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save

Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live, I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory
Sins curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From a life?s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man
Could ever pluck me from His hand
Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand