Overwhelming Goodness

This year has been one of the worst years ever, for me, emotionally.

I have had had more strain in 365 days than I think one person should have to endure in an entire lifetime.

My emotions have raced excitedly up one side of the roller coaster and back down the other in a plummeting crash.

I have prayed for friends and had their requests answered and prayed for my own and felt that I was bouncing my head against a brick wall of silence.

My patience has been stretched like a rubber band about ready to snap from too much pressure.

I have felt that there were times that I had one nerve left and it seemed as if someone was stomping on it, laughing in glee, at my demise.

My heart has poured out more tears than I thought were humanly possible, and yet there is probably more in the well spring where that came from.

Yet in all of this I will testify to my Heavenly Father's "Overwhelming Goodness".


In my moments of anguish and agony, my Heavenly Father has never left me standing alone.

He has been my Refuge in the midst of my storm and my Light House when I thought I was lost at sea.

My Lord has been my Fortress and my Rock of Salvation when I felt as though I was on an island of constant sinking sand.

When I have called out on the name of my Lord, He has been right there to hold my hand and lead the way through my dark stormy night, of loneliness and despair.

I would like to publicly acknowledge that without the support of my friends and family, I wouldn't have survived.

There were many days that one or more of them would call me just to ask how I was doing and if they had not.. I think I might have drowned in the gulf of overwhelmed-ness.

When I look at the presents that came into our home and lay under our home grown Christmas tree, I was starkly aware of God's goodness to us despite our circumstances.

I am thankful that God knows exactly what we need and is prepared to pour out the blessings of heaven even when we might feel like we do not deserve them.

If you feel like you are at the end of your rope and are about to fall off the cliff of stability..

May I suggest that you place your hand in the Hand of the Man who calmed the sea.

May I suggest that you turn your sorrows and your worries over to the God that created the mountains by the word of his mouth and breathed the very breath into our nostrils that we breath.

Let the One who has sustained me and blessed me beyond all measure amidst my grief and agony.. Let Him be your all in all. Let him be The God who gives you comfort as he has comforted me through the longest night of my life.


When you feel that you cannot hang on one second longer.. Know Him that is able to save completely and is able to bind up your broken heart and fill you with his presence that surpasses all human understanding.

I know and will give Him all the Glory forever. Does it mean that I will no longer grieve or feel anger at the circumstances of my life.. No but through it all I've learned to Trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God, no matter what life throws at me. I know that God is bigger than my problems and I will praise Him.


Amen!!