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BJClark · #2 (**permalink**) 11-25-2007, 02:19 AM

The eternal hope is still there...even when our world seems to be falling apart around us.

Someone was asking me recently how I am doing with everything going on with my (step) daughter, I thought about it for a few and was like, well, I'm fine. God has been so gracious to us even through all this, my family is growing spiritually, they have pulled together in ways I never dreamed possible, my husband has had a strained relationship with one of his older daughters and God is working this to help reconcile them. My son (12) has carried some hurts and bitterness feeding anger in his heart about his father leaving, and has on his own sought out a support group at school and church to deal with that, and has been talking more openly with his dad about those things.

So yes, even though it has been a struggle in so many ways, and they aren't over by a long shot, but I get the priviledge of watching first hand, God work through it all, knowing that in the end..it will be worth it.

They weren't sure how to respond...

So to me, it's not just about the being able to say God saved me from this or that..but it's the I get to watch God work through these things, witnessing His power first hand in our daily lives, while also knowing that one day, I'll be able to spend eternity with Him, loving Him even more than I do today.