Handed some flowers.....

This past week is one I would prefer not to repeat.  I'll spare the details and just say I am glad there is one who is a secure foundation...who doesn't change His mind every ten seconds, one that doesn't expect me to be responsible for the world's wrongs and one who can steer my boat in a raging storm.  There is one who is not the author of confusion and He is for me!
As Kari Jobe says in her song,
"I know that you are for me, I know that you are for me, I know that you will never forsake me in my weaknesses.  I know that you have come down, even if to write upon my heart...to remind me of who you are."

 Even when we feel that the wind has been knocked out of us and we don't have the strength to get up again, He is there and I rejoice because of it!  At the end of a week a friend simply handed me some flowers from her garden.  It was as if to say, "I am giving you beauty for ashes."