With God…

When my daughter Noelle was just a baby, I was running with a good friend and he was telling me that he and his wife had a miscarriage right before Christmas. It was traumatic. It was so hard for them to enjoy the holiday. I hadn’t seen him for a while and he said, it was even hard to be around me – because I had this new baby, and it just drug up all these emotions. But as we were running, he said, “But I think I got a glimpse of something more in all this. On the one hand, this has been the hardest thing we have ever gone through. But because my wife and I are going through this together, we have experienced a level of closeness and intimacy that I didn’t know was possible. And I think we realized more than ever how tenuous life is and how much we really need each other.”

His comments made me reflect on the way that in life there is both brokenness and beauty, often side by side.  And how sometimes we get this glimpse of the way God can bring something new and even good and beautiful out of something heartbreaking.

Psalm 130:7 makes the promise, “With God is great power to redeem.” 

I don’t know what you might be going through right now in your own life, but I pray that you would remember that promise: With God is great power to redeem.

Let us pray: Gracious God, we don’t always see it, but we have to trust that you are at work even in the messy, confusing, heart-wrenching moments of life. We pray today for healing, for guidance, and ultimately for redemption. In Jesus’ name. Amen.