Faith: Six Years Later

February 5, 2013 will be the sixth anniversary of Daddy moving from Earth to Heaven. I'm posting this today because I need to be reminded today, and because I just can't wait to share this. 


I've started and not finished so many blog posts about the six year anniversary of Daddy's death.

I thought about the idea of mourning turning into joy...

Phrased a few ill-written paragraphs about grief as a lifelong journey...

I still have a Prayers of the Widow project looming in my mental "to do" folder...

But today, I found my theme, my subject, my tale.

 
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). 

Faith has always been the story God wanted me to tell, for my family to live. Faith will be the central theme of that book I've sworn for years I'd write. Faith is the reason to live. 

Faith is trusting God to hold me through that first year after my dad's death when sobs wracked my body, mind, and heart.

Faith was believing God would provide food for our table...every day, month, and year.

Faith was trusting IN God's provision, NOT any particular person. It is easy to blur the lines between trusting in God, Himself, and trusting in the people  He uses as His instruments. 

Faith is not bemoaning a lack of hours at work, but striving to earn and find more hours, and trusting God to provide when a bank account fails.

Faith is not relying on  any person's kindness, but being thankful for that kindness and knowing that it is God who provides for that person, who in turn, gives. 

Faith is  knowing that no recession, president, job, or change in fiscal status can keep God from providing for those He loves.

Faith is clinging to Jehovah Jireh, trusting him when life changes dramatically. When terror strikes and you fear for your family.

Faith is rejoicing in the blessing of work, of being thankful for the kindness of others, of acknowledging the sovereignty of God.

Faith is continuously trusting in God, day after day, month after month, and year after year.

Faith is trusting God for six years, and never ceasing to trust Him, even when dire circumstances reoccur. 

Faith is holding to the promise, the promise of Jehovah Jireh, His love, His omnipotence. 

Faith is the most frightening, most humbling, most absurd to the human mind experience a person will ever encounter.

Faith is a lifelong struggle.

Faith is a lifelong journey.

Faith is a lifelong reward.

On the six year mark of my father's departure from Earth to Heaven, please pray for my family.

Pray for God's provision this year.

Pray for continued emotional and physical growth.

But pray most fervently for our faith to strengthen and grow, for without it, we are nothing. 

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