Think your life is hard? Think a breakup is hard? Feeling lost, abandoned, like no one loves you? Lonely? Like life couldn't get harder?
Here are three blogs I think you should look at...
1. The lead singer of Christian group Selah and his wife chose to go through with a pregnancy that they knew would end in a deformed baby who would only live a few hours (if that)
www.audreycaroline.blogspot.com
Then they wrote a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2CnUtVY35o that includes the lyrics "I will carry you while your heart beats here/ Long beyond the empty cradle/Through the coming years/I will carry you all your life/I will praise the One who chosen me to carry you"! What faith through this!! She is praising God for letting her be the one to carry a terminal baby! Praising God! Not accepting, not adjusting, not crying--PRAISING. What a testimony! The wife's blog is called "Bring The Rain" from a quote that says "And I know there'll be days when life brings me pain. But if that's what it takes to praise you, Jesus bring the rain". Can I say that?? What a challenge! And what glory to God!
2. What if: First, you struggled with infertility. Second, you became pregnant. Third, you feel your baby kick hello for the very first time. The next day, you give birth early to a son who only lives for minutes, and then you find out you have a failing kidney which may have contributed to his health problems?? Would you still praise God? This woman's blog is SUCH a blessing (and she continues to trust God even through an adoption...it's amazing to me that in good times and bad, her attitude toward God NEVER changes!) I want that same kind of peace, trust, and contentment through life's ups and downs! Check it out here:
www.whenhellomeansgoodbye.blogspot.com
3. How about this scenario: You find out near the end of your pregnancy that something is seriously wrong with the baby you are carrying. Your son is born at less than three pounds, and lives for about two years--completely mishapen, deformed, and abnormal. He never grows nearly as big as he should, and every month you feel like the clock is ticking toward his death. He dies, and you find out you're pregnant again soon after. However, you lose that baby halfway through the miscarriage. Would you still praise God?? Read the Gjertsens' story at www.sweetbabyjames.info The verse they chose for their blog is Romans 8:28--"For we know that for those who love God all things work together for God, for those who are called according to His purpose."
Praise God for these corageous, God-fearing women!! I want to be like them!
And, if you need a boost after that, look at another blog where the writer loves God, trusts God after finding out her first pregnancy is QUADRUPLETS, and glorifies God through her joyful, calm, orderly approach to life: www.thelifeofsuz.blogspot.com
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