It Won't Be Like This For Long..........

It Won't Be This Way For Long

A few days ago I was driving to my moms and heard this song by Darius Rucker about the stresses of bringing the baby home, her at 4 entering pre-k, her as a teenager, her getting married etc....and I just wanted to press the brakes and STOP time. I want to freeze time a little longer because it WONT be this way for long. I felt like in the past year I missed something. I got teary eyed in the car, possibly because I was exhausted being up all night with Savannah and fever so I really connected with the words to the song. Then I started to think about the past year and how crazy its been for JB, Myself and Trey and realized that in the midst of this STORM I forgot to REALLY REALLY take time to enjoy the RAIN of LIFE! Its rained alot in my life this year.

Then later on when I got home a Friend who was thinking of me sent me the video below. From it I gleaned this: God never promised there wouldn't be RAIN....but he DID promise that he would always be there. I cried because I was feeling lonesome for my baby....who is now considered by some a "toddler". I cried for my Son who is becoming a Man of God and not my little boy. I cried over regrets with my dad who passed away in January. But most of all I cried because for the past year I've been so busy asking God WHY that I forgot to thank him for everything he has given me and just Trust. God's word says that when we Cry he will LISTEN. When we cry he IS close.

Things don't always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will or should. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life is. Still, some will wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts? Well....God is actually closer to us than we think. Its when were in these situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that He gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us!





Here are the Lyrics to the Song I Heard: It Won't Be Like This For Long