Faithful to the End

Happy Friday!  After a day of rain yesterday, the sun is appearing big and bold and strong this morning.  I love that.

It seems impossible that it was just one week ago that we received the diagnosis.  In the time since I have been loved on by family and friends and prayed for most hours of the day from all parts of the country.  It feels as if those prayers have, in a sense, carried me through the week.

I was thinking this was maybe the longest week of my life, but Avery was born four days late and that was also a really looonng week.  :)

I  have had such a sweet, ever-present sense that God is with me.  The God who created the heavens and the earth and is all-powerful, yes.  But more so, I've experienced the Jesus who so tenderly got down on the ground so He could look little children in the eye.  The Jesus who stopped in the middle of the mob clamoring for Him to find out who'd touched the hem of His garment.

There is so, so much to be thankful for and I've been dwelling on that inexhaustible list.  Not in a Pollyanna, looking-for-a-ray-of-sunshine-in-the-clouds kind of way, but in a deep knowing of how very blessed I am...I never want to forget all of His benefits.

He has been faithful, He'll be faithful again.

When I'm feeling afraid

Full of uncertainty

When the plans that I've made

All fall apart

When the future's unclear

And all that i can do is wait

There is a promise

Echoing in my heart

[Chorus]

He will be faithful to the end

He will provide time and time again

He will be faithful

So faithful to the end

He will be there when all else fades

His love is stronger than my pain

He will be faithful

So faithful to the end

There is grace I can't measure

Mercy I don't deserve

There's forgiveness that's endless for me

Oh what a blessed assurance

To know how deeply I'm loved

And I'm always reminded

That He will be all I need