Where is God through it all?

“In our lives the darkest times, the days that are bleak and black, add depth to every other experience. Like the dark bits of color in a mosaic, they add the contrast and shadows that give beauty to the whole, but they are just a small part of the big picture.”

~ Amy Grant~
Mosaic: Pieces of My Life so Far

I did not originally write this post for this weeks quote, but it kind of fits so I thought I would use it.

     Many of you are closing your windows and beginning to settle in for winter, we here in Florida have every window, door, etc…wide open. We are all dancing because it is finally COOL. Not cold mind you, but cool. I know all you that live up North are going to laugh, but as soon as it drops below the 80’s we get our winter boots out, our jeans, and yes even our jackets. We like to pretend like that. The breeze is blowing, the sun is shinning and everyone over the age of 65 is making their way to Sunny Florida.

     I don’t think I could live somewhere where it is dark and cold all the time, but I do have to tell you it is hard to get in the Christmas mood when you are putting up your tree while wearing shorts. Hopefully this year we will have some sort of winter, last winter all we had was January. I will be heading to Phoenix soon, and even they are having cooler weather than Florida, so I will be packing all my winter clothes so I can at least say I wore them once this year. Ha.

     Football is now over in Laurel’s household, we have a wedding to attend next weekend, and then we head to Arizona. I have not shared some very exciting news with you all, I guess I wanted to wait. Any of my regular readers know my sister has two very wonderful girls, both adopted. Before my sister decided to follow through with adoption she and her husband went through every possible method to conceive. You name it they went through it, nothing worked. It was a very difficult, emotional time for her, and I spent a lot of time on my knees pleading to the Lord. But there is beauty in ashes. Through this I was blessed with two nieces who I know were born for our family. And if my sister never had troubles they would not be here. I love them so much. Through this my sister and I grew closer, we were not always close growing up but this pain really deepened our relationship. God did such a beautiful work in my sister also, God broke her (and let me tell you it was painful to watch), but boy what a diamond she is today. Sometimes God has to break us and then build us up for his glory. He did that to me through finances, with my sister it was infertility. Neither one of us would want to repeat any of the pain, but we would never replace it either because of what the Lord developed in each of us.

     So where does today find us? God is faithful. Many times our plans our not his plans, right now I sit questioning that on the selling my home. But here I sit practically debt free (except for one car and my house). And my sister is now 3 months pregnant. It is both ALL GOD’S DOING. Not us. I am reminded that God does things on His timing, and His time is always right. God knew those two precious girls that my sister is Mommy to, were born for our family and she needed to go through some pain in order to get them where they belong.

     I have faith that God’s timing on the sale of my house is the same way. I wish I could say I sit content in this, alas I don’t. There are tears, there is frustration, and even dare I say anger at times. But I logically know God’s timing is best, and I would not want anything differently. So even though I am not faithful, God is faithful. His grace and mercy covers my impatience. And can you join me in being absolutely thrilled for my sister’s pregnancy, what an answer to a lot of prayers.

Elisa at Extravagant Grace is our wonderful host this week.