When I’m Found in the Desert Place

Still trudging along here.  The past two weeks have been some of the most difficult of my life.  In addition to a hard conversation that left me a weepy mess for several days, I also came down simultaneously with a stomach virus and some nasty back/leg pain caused by my piriformis pressing on my sciatic nerve.  Physical therapy is helping, but slowly.

Some things at work and trying to pay bills at home helped pile on the stress, and I found myself absolutely drained physically, mentally, and spiritually by the end of the week.

Unable to do much more than plug in my iPod and stare out the window on my bus ride home, I unexpectedly found myself listening to a song that has been very meaningful to me in other difficult times of my life.  Here, have a listen:

As I listened, it brought me back some perspective.  Yes, things are hard right now.  But God is still God.  He is still in charge, and his heart is big enough for all my frustration, anger, and whining.  These things that seem so big to me are really very small from his perspective, yet he takes the time to know me and my pain intimately.  And so today, my heart chooses to say, “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”