HOLDING ON TO LOVE IN THE STORM

We are enjoying another day of winter's wrath as the storm blows through our region, the children have even found the snow day calculator: plug in your zip code, current days off from weather, and then you have prediction power. I wonder if there is something like this for our spiritual lives? Can we submit the trials we have been through, our current stamina and then get a guaranteed calculation for what will come?

Instead of being like a, "tree planted by streams of living water," Psalm 1:3 we are uprooted and oftentimes completely undone by the storms in our lives. Piles of flakes accumulate, our hearts break with the weight of the world and our lives crumble. Pain, bearable and unbearable, crashes upon us like the roar of the ocean, as if a Nor' Easter was let lose in our soul. How do we find our footing, clean up the wreckage, make our way to rebuilding when life has crushed our very soul?

There is a way, debris removal: take each piece of your hurting, wounded soul and hold it up to your Maker and ask, "Is this life-giving and true?" We find we are furious with God for all we have lost, and we ask, "God?"

"Yes, My child, you are angry at Me for your situation. You have needed this anger to survive and now it is time to let it go. Bring your hurting heart to Me. Allow My love to heal you. Accept that My ways are higher than your ways. Isaiah 55:9 know that I will fulfill My purposes for you and that My love endures forever."Psalm 138:8

Need help cleaning up after the storms of life? It won't be easy or quick, but God can help.

Medicine from Sacred Scripture:

"I pray that you being rooted and established in love, may have power together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge." Ephesians 3:19