Everlasting Arms

My youngest sister is in the hospital, she is 29 weeks pregnant.  Things are not going as they should, and although the baby is doing fine, Kyla really isn't, and the medical team down there are trying to figure out the where, the why and the what.  If you're the praying type, please pray for all the things we pray for when people we love are in crisis. 

Everybody hates waiting.  We all hate what-if.  There usually aren't satisfying answers to why.  But I know this, and it gives me peace.  God is big enough to handle our questions.  He is not surprised by any of this, and He's not overwhelmed by our circumstances.  Not overwhelmed,  but not unmoved either.  He doesn't delight in our suffering, He shares it with us. Knowing we are not alone gives me immense Hope.

We are so small and God is so big, and yet we matter to Him.  It matters to Him when we bring little things like what to do with scrappy siblings to big things like life and death and Mommas whose bodies are failing while they are growing babies, it all matters to God.  

I can rest, because God isn't tired.

This old hymn has been going through my head all morning.  It's my prayer for Kyla and her family. And while my thoughts might be incomplete and scattered, these old words are bringing comfort right now.

He loves us, He is with us, and He is holding us up with His mighty hand.  Amen.  He is with us.

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms


What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
leaning on the everlasting arms


Leaning, leaning
safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning
Leaning on the everlasting arms


What have I to dread, What have I to fear
Leaning on the everlasting arms
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near
Leaning on the everlasting arms.


Leaning, leaning
safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, Leaning
Leaning on the everlasting arms

Psalm 16: 8 -9

I have set the Lord always before me.

Because he is at my right hand,I will not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;

my body also will rest secure