BLESSINGS in the Storms

I have been sharing the last several months about us having storms in our lives..  We have been through many, many.

In November, our son had some very serious health problems.

In January, our son's wife left him.

Without going into a lot of personal things.....things with our son and his wife have gone down south............lots of stress and lost hope.  Every week....there is another surprise.

In the middle of all of that.........Roger lost his secular job in November............he had major reconstructive surgery on his shoulder April 3 and will go through at least 8-10 weeks of Physical Therapy.

I have been having shoulder issues........was finally sent to a specialist and had an MRI April 2.  Found out last Thursday.....that my issues have been from my neck....I have several serious issues going on and there is NO permanent fix.  I am scheduled to have an epidural injection Friday of this week and I begin Physical therapy for my neck issues.  I can have 4-6 epidural injections a year and with that and exercise, I will live with my issues.



BUT.....in the middle of all of these storms............I sat down and started writing down our blessings.

• Our son's health problems are 100% better.  We have our son BACK.  God is Good.
• Our finances are being taken care of.........and we can live comfortably without Roger's secular job..  God is good.
• This is the first time in our twenty-one years of ministry at our church that we desperately NEEDED their prayers.........even though at the beginning, we could not share.  Our church stepped up to bat.  They have PRAYED for us, LOVED on us and been there for us.  It has been a humbling experience, but God has used it to grow our members spiritually.  God is good.
• We are a country church............that started out with 12 in Sunday School and 32 for preaching and they praised God for the large number for the visiting minister.  We have had 11 baptisms since December and approximately 8 others have joined.........we are growing in numbers and in spiritual growth.  Our church is on fire.  We have run out of space and have begun to talk of a major Building Program. We now run 85-90's in Sunday School and 140-150 in preaching.  God is good.

Anyway......as I began to list our blessings...............the list of blessings got much longer than the storms. 

Our Blessings by far out-weigh the STORMS.......................God is good.

Maybe you are one of my sisters that is facing some major storms in your life right now.....we all go through STORMS.  That is life.....we all have them......if you are not experiences storms right now, I am sure you have in the past.

Sometimes we ALL need to just sit down and physically write out our Blessings. 

God is sooo good.

I love you all and thank you for the prayers.  Please keep praying for my family, especially our son, Cody.  God will get him through this..........but it is not going to be easy......but GOD is STILL IN CONTROL.