A New Year's to remember.......

Well 2016 did not start the way we expected it would......... We rang in the new year with anxiousness, tears, and unexpected news. I have felt more emotions in one day than I have in a week. From tears of sadness to tears of thankfulness, 2016 has already made an impact on me. Much more is in store this year and in times like this it can make you scared of what is to come.
Around 11:00 o'clock last night our New Year's Eve took a turn for the worst. The youngest member of our family fell off of a toy box and broke his arm. So there we are at midnight driving frantically to get him x-rayed. As we were waiting in Children's hospital around 1:00 this morning, I slowly took a look at myself. What else was there to do? My phone battery was dying.  I don't know what it is about late night hospital visits, but they sure do make you see things differently. I have never been one to trust in untrusting times. When the storm rages I don't face it with grace, but rather with anger and confusion. But as I sat there,  the loud silence of the waiting room stinging my ears, I felt something I don't believe I have ever felt in uncertainty............... PEACE. I felt God near me, I felt him holding my sweet, baby brother's hand as he sat amidst his pain. And in that moment I saw what He's been trying to show me all along. Jesus is the best thing that has ever happened to me and the only thing that will eternally matter. When bad times come, and they will, nothing and I mean nothing will overcome the hurt and pain better than Jesus. He is our life purpose and can never be taken away from us. He is my comforter, my security, and my friend. Life consists of more that what is seen in my eyes and I know that now. Isn't it funny that the times you see Jesus the most can be times like this? I am so thankful for all the doctors and nurses who helped my brother last night and most of all I am thankful  for the greatest physician of all, my Jesus. This is a New Year's Eve I will never forget. With the bad and the good, God has blessed us. And last night was just a reminder.

“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” 

                                                                     -Isaiah 40:28-30

-Heather Grace