Keeping Our Heads Above Water - Chapter 19

February 24, 2016

"There can be unwavering peace today 

when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God."

 We felt that unwavering peace as we sat in a church three days before one chapter ended and a new one began in our lives, celebrating Christ's birth with our family.  A family that included a son, a daughter, grandchildren, in-laws, ex's from previous chapters of our lives....FAMILY.  We lit each other's candles as we stood together in unwavering belief in the One who raises the winds and lifts the waves and we broke bread and shared His blood with each other that warm Christmas Eve night.

And we shared a warm Christmas morning, barefoot, with close friends on the very deck that two days later would be underwater....and we broke bread yet again in celebration of a birth.

"When God raises the winds and lifts the waves — 

you can always trust His hand to lift you higher — further up into Himself."

 

 And the clouds darkened....and the waves lifted.  The rains never gave up.....they just kept falling...almost like Heaven sobbing for this wicked world below.

"And we felt the strange silence of the encroaching crisis"

"In every storm — Your Father gives you a life preserver — and it is always His Son."

 The very same Son we had just celebrated three days earlier.....three days....the same amount of time He lay in the tomb.

 "And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, 

but it did not fall, because it had been founded on that Rock." (Matthew 7:25)

"In every great crisis – let it bring out the greatness of Christ in you. Real prayer always has eyes on Christ, not the crisis."