Joy and Sorrow

Today I feel overwhelmed by a mix of emotions.

My heart hurts and breaks at the terrible loss of our incredible soldiers in Afghanistan. It's a hard day to have the love of your life called to serve in the military. I feel overwhelmed by sorrow, fear, and anger....along with peace, joy, and thanksgiving. While those families experience an unconscionable amount of loss, we celebrate the return of our neighbors, birthdays of innocent children, new births, and weddings...all of this in one day. It seems impossible that while some worlds seem to end, ours keep going.

I am drawn to the verses in John 6 where Peter asks: "Lord, to whom shall we go"...knowing that the breath of life and this flesh is given and guided not by our will, but by the Father's...and that He is the only place we can turn.

 "Abba Father, everything is possible for you,  take this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done" Mark 14:36

Your Grace is sufficient for me. Your power is made perfect in my weakness: 2 Corinthians 12:9

"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us" 1 John 4:16

Finding Joy in the Father, thankful for today...these are my heartcries of the hour.

Thank you for praying with me as we all walk in this broken world.
        "The joy of the Lord is our strength!" (Nehemiah 8:10)