"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you..."
"O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 107:1
This Thanksgiving, I am more thankful than ever for the grace and goodness of God. It's been a difficult year - by far the most difficult year of my life - but God has been faithful.
Ever faithful.
Even when I've doubted Him, even when I've been lacking in faith - He has been faithful. I am so humbled at His faithfulness towards one who is so unworthy of it.
He has carried us through - through a job loss, through a last-minute move when I was in the throws of morning-noon-and-night sickness, through bleeding and bedrest in my early pregnancy, through five months of my husband working at an incredibly difficult and taxing job while I was experiencing a very difficult and taxing pregnancy, through the possibility of another job loss at the same time that I was admitted to the hospital for five days for anemia due to my pregnancy, through more bed rest and more job difficulties, through a very painful labor and delivery, through adjusting to being a mother to two children, through my husband quitting his job thinking we had everything lined up to move back to our hometown and then all of that falling through, through a few months of searching for God's will and direction regarding employment and where we were to live, through starting up our own law firm and trusting God for what the future might hold for us...
Yes, it's been a very hard year. Most of it has been so hard I've not been able to even blog about it. Some of you have known and been praying. Others of you haven't known, but have written out-of-the-blue to say you are praying for our family. I know that it is God putting us on your hearts. So many of you have written encouraging notes and blessed us in so many unexpected and tangible ways - often just when we needed it most.
And so this year, I'm thankful for the Lord's faithfulness and I'm ever so thankful for His love shown to us through each of you. It is impossible for me to adequately express the blessing you all have been to our family.
"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you."
I can only hope and pray that the Lord will give back innumerable blessings to each and every one of you for the ways you have blessed us.
posted by Crystal Paine at 6:35 PM
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