Good

God Is Good!

Can we say this just because He has so incredibly and faithfully provided what we've needed to bring the girls home? How simple this is to proclaim while we float on His breath, comfortably carried along on this journey.

Is God still good when families struggle through with an adoption and rough adjustment? Is He good when a dear family struggles with the effects of brain tumors?

Was God any less good in the winter of 2005, when my mother was battling breast cancer? Was He somehow not good when my sister-in-law had such a serious accident in the winter snow? In the midst of that difficult winter, God was indeed Good:

"This time has been stressful, but faith building. The other morning, another family came into the ICU waiting area... gathering to say good-bye to their 28 or 29 year old family member. She had also been in a car accident, but did not live. She was being kept on life support just long enough for the family to gather. Watching them was very hard on Mom and Kurt - hits very close to home. We realize that we came very close to losing Kathy. God is good!
But the question arises: was God any less good for the family who lost their daughter/wife/sister? Would we still be able to praise and talk of the goodness of God if we were making funeral plans instead of rehab plans? God IS good. God is ALWAYS good. We have sung a song in worship time that gets me in the heart every time: "Blessed be Your Name, on the road marked with suffering. Though there's pain in the offering, Blessed be Your Name.." As I began learning that song a few months ago, I had no idea what I would be learning now." (February 2005)

As we rejoice and wonder at all of the marvelous things that are happening in our family right now, I am mindful that these children we are seeking to parent are coming to us because of the deep and painful loss of their parents. Even in such utter grief and loss, God IS Good. He, whose eye is on the sparrow, has cared for these precious children.

Please pray this week for the girls. Pray for the healing of their wounds, and for rich assurance that God is Good.

"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;

His love endures forever."

1 Chronicles 16:34