Blessed be your name.

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
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That song is such a challenge to me. Like for real "Blessed be your name on the road marked with suffering"? That is so hard! Yesterday was just not a good day. Well, actually, it was a really really really good day, but then there was just some not good stuff mixed in with it. Last night, I sat on the phone with Ash and we just both cried for like ohmygosh I don't even know how long. And then she started telling me how her problems felt so little compared to so many others, and here we were crying over them. People are dying, struggling through cancer, trying to find food and don't know where there next meal is coming from. Its crazy how insignificant our problems are, yet we think they are so big. I was so reminded of God's plan. Through EVERYTHING. I don't know what His plan is....

okay, hold on, pause... Ash, American Honey is on ;)

...But, like I honestly don't know what the Lord's plan is for my life or anybody else's and so frequently, I don't trust the Lord with my life! He CREATED me, I'm pretty sure he does indeed know what's best for me. So, God, Blessed be your name, even on the road marked with suffering. Help me trust you, FULLY, with my life God. Let my lifesong sing to you. As I was talking to Ash, we were doing my Bible study together over the phone. Just looking up verses and stuff. And, every single verse we looked up was exactly what we needed. Talk about a God thing. Okay, wow, another God thing. I was flipping through my Bible to find the verses to put on here, and guess what verse I came across. "Cursed is the strong one who depends on mere humans, who thinks he can make it on muscle alone and sets God aside as dead weight... But blessed is the man who trusts in God and the woman who sticks with God." (Jeremiah 17:5, 7) Wow. God is amazing.

Here are some of the verses:

"You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another." ~Proverbs 27:17

"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." ~James 4:14-15

"Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." ~Ecclesiastes 4:12

"For God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of self-control." ~2 Timothy 1:7

"By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home." ~Hebrews 11:8

"Give [God's word] plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct each other using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives--words, actions, whatever--be done in the name of the Master Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way." ~Colossians 3:16-17

So, God, BLESSED BE YOUR NAME. God, even in trials and suffering. No matter what we're going through, Father. We will trust you. We love you so much.