Great is Thy Faithfulness

Lamentation 3:22-23 "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is

 thy faithfulness."

Have truer words ever been spoken? This past weekend and week were pretty eventful.  But in pretty much every aspect there was no missing the reality of Lamentations 3 :22-23.   Lauralin flew home on Saturday morning April 5th in order to be home for her and Sarah's birthday.  Kaity and Lauralin were once again reunited.  

We picked her up at the airport.  As we are driving down the Jersey Turnpike Kaity sees the airport in the distance and says "look mommy, I see Nashville".   This is a misconception that we may perhaps never be able to rectify!  Oh, another note about that day  you might not want to take a three year old with you birthday shopping for someone else.  We took Kaity with us that day as we bought Nonni's birthday present.  The next day when she came over Kaity looked at her very seriously and said "we're going to open your present later and it's going to be pots."  That night we had a bowling party for Sarah's 30th birthday.   That was a TON of fun, although most of us...weren't so good at bowling. 

The next day was Lauralin's birthday....we won't divulge secrets we will just say that

 her 30th as come and gone.  We  had the whole family over to my house for Timmy's chicken tortilla soup hmmm....and ice cream cake.  

Monday I thought that it might be time to maybe get the house cleaned up from the party and have a low key day after a busy weekend.  Leave it to my father to ruin THOSE plans! ;-).   I got a phone call that my dad was being taken to Valley's emergency room from the school in an ambulance.  My father is NOT given to drama and doesn't complain easily so if he is allowing himself to be taken to the ER in an ambulance something is probably going on.  Turns out that he had atrial fibrillation.  In short terms his heart rate was irregular and very elevated.  After spending a night in the hospital being monitored it returned to normal and apparently there is no cause for great concern, but I can tell you that it was a scary phone call to receive. 

That Monday my car also died requiring somewhat expensive repairs, Tuesday Timmy went for an MRI, we are waiting for the results to see if he is going to require shoulder surgery.  Shoulder surgery for a carpenter is a little interesting because it will probably require him to miss work to some extent for two to three months.   But that sort of all brings me back full circle to where I started.  

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning:  great is they faithfulness.  

Nothing that happened was out of His control, or even His plan.  He knew it was all going to happen before it happened and He had his own purposes for it.  He gives us strength when we need it and His faithfulness is indeed great.