I am just sick. What's going on in this country is so unnerving! So many people losing their jobs. Unemployment rates breaking records. Recession. People losing their homes. It has affected many people we know and seems to especially affect our home state, Michigan. It's just crazy. I feel so worried for several people I know who think they may lose their job. People with families, children, bills. What are they gonna do?! I know what it's like to lose a family-providing job. It happened to us a couple years ago and we lost our house as a result. It was a very tough time in our lives, but looking back now we learned and grew so much from it. I'm worried about marriages going through crisis at the prospects or the reality of these things. I wish I could protect them all from it. Even though that was an incredibly rough time in our lives, we are all the better for it. I would never wish for tough times, but we all know they can do 1 of 2 things.....make us (better) or break us! And of course we have a choice. I pray that we all choose to put our lives, our WHOLE lives, all of it, every last thing we can think of, in God's hands. He is so much bigger than any situation that comes our way AND He can bring "life" to our lives....so much more than we ourselves could even deam up for ourselves. I never could have imagined where we are now, doing what we're doing, and the joy it would bring. And it could only come through the journey we've been on, one that involved devastating loss. I can now say, "Thank you for that trial!" However, I'd never want to relive it and during that time it was hard to believe we'd survive it! Nor do I want anymore trials! LOL But I know it's life. They are gonna come. I pray next time I remember how God has provided and taken care of us and that He of course will do it again. I pray it brings more peace, less fear, and less worry each time. God bless you! xo
