Day 7 0f the gratitude of Lent
I am grateful for the storms of life.
We all have storms in life, sometimes they are little inconveniences that disrupt our daily routine and other times they are tsunamis which roar in, knock us off our feet and shake-up our whole world. It took me a long time to learn to be grateful for them. I can look back on those times and see how much I grew in my faith.
I thought that the 6 year battle with cancer that I walked through with my late husband and the aftermath of his death was as bad as it could get. During that time, there were days that I had no strength left and I thought I couldn’t go one. God became my constant companion and it was on him that I depended. He carried me when I could not do it myself, I learned to rely on his strength.
This strength I learned to tap into would come back to serve me in 2014. When I left my home that November morning for the hospital, I expected to be home and healing from spinal surgery in three days time. Over three weeks later I returned home after becoming paralyzed. This began a long and painful battle to return to health and mobility. As frightened as I was when it happened, I remember thinking that God’s got me and he won’t let me down. During the whole ordeal, my mantra in my head was a verse from Philippians, “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”
I am not looking forward to the next storm but I know that with God’s help, I will survive and grow from it. For that, I am grateful.
LIFE STORMS
Like waves crashing on the shore,
Trouble comes and knocks on your door.
Your not prepared. you wonder why,
The storms crush you and make you cry.
You reach out to God for help and care,
You finally go to your knees in prayer.
You find your strength by relying on him.
It’s then you realize, that’s where it’s always been.
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