God rains

I am thankful for what the Lord is doing. 

I am grateful for the way His care truly IS ever tender. Even when it is stretching, even when it is hard, even when it has felt brutal...it IS tender and His love is just lining every corner. 

We have several dear friends we have been praying with for many years with over the pain of grown children living far from Him. We have several dear friends battling harsh disease. We have several dear friends in broken places with broken hearts, and we have just been sitting with them this season seeing that His care is ever tender as He draws near the crushed in spirit, as He helps us cling to His promises. 

I am grateful for the friends who have been ever tender, too, those who have risked saying the wrong thing and instead have just communicated that they love us. Those who have wept because we're weeping. Those who have been praying without even knowing how. 

The Lord's been so gracious to show me bits of His big picture for me and for us...and it doesn't focus much on the details, but on who He is. He is a good and worthy and steady and true thing to cling to...the only good and true thing...and this uncomfortable season of clinging has us sweeter and softer, looking more like Him.  Eyes on Jesus.

There are still things to wrestle with. Still griefs to grieve through. Still some old wounds to address. Still some healthy roads and boundaries to trace until they become rutted. 

But the Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. Rev 22:17

And all this makes us thirsty. And all there is to do is come.  

Everything we are and everything we have is because God rains on the just and unjust, sitting on the throne, King forever.  May the Lord give strength to His people, and bless His people with peace.