Steadfast Love Endures

It was a hard week.

It was Homecoming for our High School kids.  Last year at Homecoming, Sierra's life was changed forever when she injured her shoulder.  Anniversaries are hard.

Mataya is cutting her two year molars.  She thinks it is the end of the world.  Much crying and many tantrums filled her week.

And poor Joshua fractured his arm.

 Friday morning, I was tired.

Stressed.

Weary.

Mataya was tantruming.

Again.

And again.

And then again.

Joshua was aching.

My house was noisy and filled with discontentment.

As was my soul.

I was throwing a mental pity party about how hard and unfair it all was.  I was really, really wishing I could copy Miss Mataya and throw a knock-down, drag-out temper tantrum and then cry myself to sleep when the door bell rang.

It had arrived!

And the timing was certainly not a coincidence!

I had ordered this sign a few weeks earlier when I was feeling very, very thankful.  I had been wishing for it for a whole year, and I had been counting down the days until it would arrive.

I thought the reminder in it would be thankfulness.

BUT - when I opened it as Joshua moaned and Mataya tantrumed and read the words with my heart of discontentment - God used His words differently than I expected.

As I read it, I heard Him whisper.

Steadfast love endures...

Steadfast love endures...

Steadfast love endures...

Sigh.

I just love Him.

And in that very moment, He removed all my discontentment and replaced it with a desire to love as He loves.

His steadfast loves that endures all my troubles, pain, temper tantrums, and pity parties inspires me.  It soothes me.  It restores my soul.

Life is still crazy here.

I expect it will be for at least the next 17 years!

BUT His steadfast love endures.  And because His love lives in me, my love can be steadfast and enduring, too.

Thank you, Lord.

(And thank you, Kam.  I love how your work makes my heart and my home more beautiful.  You can find her work at http://onegirldesignshoppe.com/)