Don't Cry

Sometimes I wonder at the Lord's ways.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts."  Isaiah 55:8-9

 I find myself, less than eight weeks after my miracle pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage, miscarrying again.  Another miraculous pregnancy, another miscarriage, right on the heels of the last one.  I don't really have all that much to say about all this that I haven't already said in my previous post...  

 Except this.  I don't think it's a coincidence at all that the very day I began miscarrying this time, Seth said his first complete thought; a two-word sentence.  "Don't cry."  Clear as day, from the mouth of my little 19-month-old son, a precious reminder to my aching heart that God has this too under His sovereign control. Thank you, Lord.

 (We have an appointment with the doctor on Wednesday that I would love your prayers for, as you remember to pray.)

Comments

Carrie said…
exciting and so sad at the same time. I will be praying. There was a song that was a great encouragement to me as I went through my miscarriages. It was on the Galkins "By Faith" CD. Here are the words "If I call, will You come
When I cry, do You hear
I believe every tear
Is caught up by a faithful God
So I will cry until You come
Cast my cares into Your arms
I can't see past this storm
But I'm counting on a faithful God

CHORUS
Faithful God
You hold my life secure
All my days are Yours
I believe
My God is like a fire defending me
Faithfully

VERSE 2
I believe You still heal
And demons still bow
I'm convinced there is power
In trusting in a faithful God
So I will praise till You appear
And set Your foot upon this shore
I declare that every foe
Is subject to my faithful God

I know that You are mine
And I am Yours, I am Yours
I know Your faithfulness
It will endure, it will endure"

July 7, 2014 at 11:01 AM
Melanie said…
I echo Carrie's thoughts exactly. I'm sooo sorry.
July 7, 2014 at 1:29 PM
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