Where Glory meets my suffering...

I pray that everything we have been through and have been told from the doctors in the last month would just be a testimony to our unbelieving friends here in China that We do serve a LIVING God and his promises always prevail.  He has the final say on our health, and our future.  Not ANY doctor. 

For weeks we feared our child's health, and families future.  Tonight I am so grateful for all that Jon and I have learned and how our hearts have changed through it all. 

I  am grateful for the deeper compassion I have for some of my students who have special needs. I am reminded why it is important to have community and how we need ALL need each other. I am inspired by the way God is shaping our family to love deeper and to embrace those who are not the same as everyone else for whatever reason that may be. I am motivated to see people for who they are inside--for what they have to offer rather than what they are lacking or how they are different. I am thankful for our family and friends around the world who have carried us with prayer, encouragement and LOVE.

Most of all I have learned that a relationship with Christ requires radical faith, hope and trust... I am not there yet but I have come a long way in the past 4 weeks.

Today one of my mentors/trainers named Hannah who is associated with our kindergarten emailed me this verse: 

Romans 4:18-22 "Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be."  

I was reminded that Abraham, WITHOUT weakening in his faith, faced the fact that his body was as good as dead- since he was about 100 years old- and that Sarah's womb was also dead. He NEVER wavered with unbelief regarding the promise from God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave GLORY to God.  He fully believed that ONLY God had the power to do what he had promised. And This is why he was called RIGHTEOUS. He trusted God to do what he knew he could not do on his own, and he was set right before God. The same can be said about us when we fully trust the one who raised Jesus back to life when the conditions were HOPELESS.

It is a beautiful thing when you open up your aching heart and say, "I trust you, I believe you, I have faith that you are who you say you are..."

If you are reading this and going through a valley Know that Jesus is looking at you saying, "Let me LOVE you...let me HEAL you...allow me to CHANGE your life" ... Because at the end of the day and every moment in between the only thing we need is Jesus.


The title of this blog comes from a new song I love from Mercy Me called "The Hurt and the Healer"...

My Favorite part of this song and video below =)

It's the moment when humanity
Is overcome by majesty
When grace is ushered in for good
And all the scars are understood
When mercy takes its rightful place
And all these questions fade away
When out of weakness we must bow
And hear You say "It's over now"