What has faith done for you?  Its a simple question that I will venture to guess would have a lengthy answer from anyone you pose it to.  If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you know that faith plays a big part in my life.  You know that i believe in a God who is real and who is more than just a deity.  I believe in a God who is truly my Heavenly Father and I make no apologies for loving Him and for allowing Him to be a big part of my life.  I find myself, as of very recently, standing at a place in my life where I can survey it and look forward to learning from the “lessons” in my life.  God has been teaching me and let me tell you… teaching… learning… its not always an easy place to be in.

But… through the the trials in my life, the obstacles, the pains and struggles… I’ve SEEN miracles… just happen.  Silent prayers get answered.  Broken hearts become brand new…………… THAT’S what faith can do.  Yes, I was listening to this song by Kutless and I realized what an anthem this is for my life.

What Faith can do ~ Kutless

Everybody falls sometimes
Gotta find the strength to rise
From the ashes and make a new beginning
Anyone can feel the ache
You think its more than you can take
But you are stronger, stronger than you know
Don’t you give up now
The sun will soon be shining
You gotta face the clouds
To find the silver lining

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard
Impossible is not a word
It’s just a reason for someone not to try
Everybody’s scared to death
When they decide to take that step
Out on the water
It’ll be alright
Life is so much more
Than what your eyes are seeing
You will find your way
If you keep believing

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

Overcome the odds
You do have a chance
(That’s what faith can do)
When the world says you can’t
It’ll tell you that you can!

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do
That’s what faith can do!
Even if you fall sometimes
You will have the strength to rise

Have you ever been to THAT point in your life when you were SURE that there could be NOTHING worse?  You were positive that there was NO way that your life could be ANY harder and then… it got harder, more stressful, sadder, and another heaping helping was placed on you… yeah THAT place… I’ve been there.  Some days, I am STILL there.  It really is true though that sometimes you have to FACE the clouds to find the silver lining.

You end up in these “messes” and you find yourself floundering to get out.  You cry out for help and sometimes the help comes in a form in which we may not even recognize it.  So what defines US as Christians, from the rest of the world?  WE have faith to carry us through.  WE have a HOPE that NEVER ends… EVEN when the sky is falling.  WE have the ultimate safety net and even though we may fall… sometimes even hard and from a high place, He is there to catch us.

From the outside, it may looks as if we are somehow “cursed” by these “afflictions”… WHY if we are Christians and in the FAVOR of the Lord do we face these horrible things?  Because we are being refined.  When you think of a beautiful piece of blown glass you often times don’t realize what kind of process that glass went through to become that beautifully formed vase you see before you.  That glass was put through the FIRE.  It was twisted and turned, poke and prodded.  Refining that piece of glass and forging it into a piece of artwork was not a dainty process although the end product may be just that.  Delicate, elegant, beautiful.

I think so many times we get caught up in trying to “figure it out”.  Or at least I know I do.  Sometimes though, all He is asking us to do, is to let GO and let HIM do the work that needs to be done.  To allow him to be that glass blower who stick us, his beautiful pieces of artwork in that fire, pulls them out, blows into them the breath of life and send them on their journey as a beautiful finished product.

As you can tell from the last blog posting, its been a down few days.  I had such a great week last week.  I felt great.  I was able to get out and make some coupon runs.  I was able to stay up past 9 pm and actually enjoy watching TV with my husband.  I was able to do the laundry and play with the kids.  To go OUT to eat instead of asking Troy to just run through the drive thru because I was too tired to do anything else.  I made a few trips across town without falling asleep ( yes… I am nearly narcoleptic some days ).  It was wonderful.  I long for more.  I tried not to count how many days I felt good just because that would also mean numbering the days that I don’t and that number… is not one that I want to dwell on.  And then it hit.  I went to get out of bed and had to MAKE myself.  I had to drag my eyelids open and stumble my way to the bathroom ( yes I really do stumble until my CSF flow can be re-established from standing quickly). I tried to drink a mt. dew…. no go.  Put on some upbeat music… nada.  And then Ky was poopy… I went to lift her up onto her changing table… I tried three times to get her up there and finally I had to go get a step stool and let her climb because I physically could NOT lift her body weight up 3 ft to the changing table.  I muddled through that and sat down on the computer to try and get some work done.  Unable to access the server … no go there to.  I felt like going and crawling back into the bed and saying… “reboot”.  I wanted to start all over again.  I thought out loud “this is going to be one of those impossible days… when NOTHING goes right”….

Before the words could fully escape from my mouth I felt that tugging at my heart… I remembered this song.  “Impossible is NOT a word… its just a reason for someone not to TRY”.  I thought to myself… I could sit right here in this chair and give up on today.  I could whine and pout about how its going to suck and nothing is going to work so why even try.  I could sit here and say I am done… but somehow, I have never been the person who has been allowed, by my convictions to “give up” because believe you me there have been some times that I really would have liked to!  But no, not me.  I have been called, to be the person who God has determined that my testimony will be to overcome the odds when I don’t “stand a chance”.  I am the person who my spirit rises up and tells me that I CAN… no matter what the situation looks like.  I have often felt like maybe this could be a bit of a double edged sword but how much more am I blessed that my Heavenly Father trusts me to walk through these things KNOWING that I won’t give up… ever.  He has searched my heart and knows my anxious thoughts (and trust me … I have a lot of them!!! LOL).  So today… my scripture of the day is (of course)

Psalm 139

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

And of course the song inspiration of the day is “What Faith Can Do” by Kutless. I hope that it can become an anthem in your life. I hope that you find that hope that doesn’t EVER end even when the sky is falling. I hope that you see miracles just happen and your silent prayers get answered. I hope that when the world tells you that you CAN’T that YOU will tell it that you CAN.

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