He delights in me. He adores me. These are truths that I am finding comfort and peace in today and everyday. It's the reason I can get up every morning. It's the reason I am alive today, because He has a plan for me. And He knew on my worst days that He wasn't finished with me. Today I am here and I'm thankful for his protective hand over me even when I didn't think I wanted Him to give me another tomorrow. He knew, and He never left. He surrounded me and He has shown me how deeply He cares for me. On the days of restlessness and pure angst I wasn't sure how He was working or how He would bring me from that place, but praise God that my Father knows my needs and He not only knows them but He provides for them.
While now in a completely different season, He reveals this to me in different ways. The struggles are different, but my God hasn't changed. I need his strength in different ways and for different reasons. The cool thing is, he knows just that. He knows what those hard things are and why they're hard. He knows what will come out of this season and He knows the length and depth of this season.
Please pray for clarity and direction in an environment that is destructive. Please pray that no matter what is going on around me or what is being said to me that I will be able to continue to impact and love my students well. That I will see the good, and tune out the voices that cause me to doubt and to feel inadequate. Pray for my interactions with those who tear me down, I want to demonstrate grace and kindness and am struggling to do so.
I am encouraged by who He is and the depths of His love for me. He has not brought me here to leave me. Through suffering we learn to grasp just a glimpse of what Christ felt that day on the cross. The Lord works through those times and I can look back and see how faithful He was and look ahead in the midst of the here and now and know HE IS ABLE.
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