Bring The Rain

Seems we are in a holding pattern here. A week since my last post and still the same symptoms continue on, with the low fever coming and going with no rhyme or reason. But Noah is holding his own and is actually quite happy despite it all, and so for now we wait... I'm feeling like we are on pins and needles as we wait for this to turn into something serious enough to head off to the ER. And so I have gotten the kids ready for halloween and I'm trying to finish up all the little things around here in case we go in again. Praying that I'm wrong though and that we can beat this one out of hospital. Brad was up in the Arctic Circle doing training this past weekend and got snowed in an extra day. So now that he is home I can breathe a little easier that we can manage if Noah does go back in.

I heard a song last week that summed up so beautifully the way I have been feeling. Somehow we feel that bad things only happen to other people and we have this feeling of entitlement to a happy, healthy life. But then the rain comes, and we are forced to make a choice. It may not be an easy choice, and we may have to choose over and over each day. We can choose to live a bitter, resentful life, hating the clouds, the wet, the cold...Or we can choose to embrace the rain...be thankful for the rain...love the rain. For we know that in the grand scheme of things, what's a little rain??

Bring The Rain

I can count a million times

People asking me how I

Can praise You with all that I’ve gone through

The question just amazes me

Can circumstances possibly

Change who I forever am in You

Maybe since my life was changed

Long before these rainy days

It’s never really ever crossed my mind

To turn my back on you, oh Lord

My only shelter from the storm

But instead I draw closer through these times

So I pray

Bring me joy, bring me peace

Bring the chance to be free

Bring me anything that brings You glory

And I know there’ll be days

When this life brings me pain

But if that’s what it takes to praise You

Jesus, bring the rain

I am Yours regardless of

The dark clouds that may loom above

Because You are much greater than my pain

You who made a way for me

By suffering Your destiny

So tell me what’s a little rain

So I pray

Holy, holy, holy

Is the Lord God Almighty

~Mercy Me

To listen to the song, check out this link http://youtube.com/watch?v=ElISFieaukc