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"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him."

It's been quite the week, and it seems to be dragging. I can't seem to focus or not be stressed at work. So I took some hours off this morning even though I feel guilty about it. I just have so many things that I need to spend time with God and in thought.

My brother's new father in law passed away in a helicopter crash this week. He just conducted the married my brother and his daughter less than a month ago. He was...

~Beauty_from_Pain~

I want to be able to surrender everything to Christ. Just when I think I have done it, or when I think I am doing great, something happens that reminds me once again what a fallen human I am. Without the love of Christ, I would be nothing.

Surrendering is hard in some areas for me. I think one of the hardest is trusting Him. To believe that He can do anything, to believe that He will do what it is that is best. Yet with all my heart I desire to follow Him.

Even if that...

~Beauty_from_Pain~

Oh Lord,
Creator of all things, to you I lift up my life. I know not where you will lead more, or where you would have me go. I fall down, and don't know how to pick myself back up. All my hopes and dreams lay scattered on the floor; let my hope in You never fail.

You are the Lord of all the earth. You are the one who makes the sun rise and set. You fill the oceans, bring spring after winter. You alone can save, You alone can create life from death. You alone can create beauty...

~Beauty_from_Pain~

Be near to me in my darkness, as I walk through the valley. Things have been hard lately and I have been doing my best to hang on. I really feel dragged down by spiritual darkness. My conscience is clear in you and in knowing that you are who I server, and yet I can feel the attacks of the darkness of the world. The more I seek you, the harder I am attacked.

Sometimes I feel like it is more than I can bear. The lies are near, and my strength seems to fail me.

Lord, be...

~Beauty_from_Pain~

We often think of the single person as one would think of a single sock, a single shoe, or a single earring. I say this because we think of the single person without a partner as someone who is not complete, that something is missing from their lives. Without that partner, the assumption of many is that one is left not ever being whole. This is something that we as singles struggle with, and something that society teaches us. Yet, this is so far from the truth. However, due to a of pressure around...

~Beauty_from_Pain~