On a very early Monday morning over a year and a half ago, I lay wide awake. Turning to face my clock, I sighed. There were still two more hours before our alarm was set to go off.
My mind was racing as I anticipated stepping into the day of my long anticipated total hip revision surgery.
This was a very big day.
My gentle husband was also awake and I heard him quietly speak to me in the darkness,
“I think you are going to see the goodness of the Lord today.”
He was referring to Psalm 27:13 which says, “I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!”
God’s Word, whispered to my unsteady heart that early morning, slightly bolstered my weary soul. Oh, how I wanted to believe my husband. Oh! How I wanted to see the goodness of the Lord that day!
The Lord’s goodness is revealed in both obvious and subtle ways.
At times I’ve seen goodness arrive as a constant, steady stream over my life. And there are times, seasons even, where goodness descended in practically imperceivable dribbles.
And sometimes the goodness of the Lord is a slow process of His goodness unfolding.
Unfolding goodness.
Yes, for me the last 20 months since that surgery have definitely been most like an unfolding of God’s goodness.
There has been a slow and gentle lifting of the heaviness and constant pain that I’ve been burdened with this past 1/2 decade. And this beautiful process of God providing for me and gradually unfolding goodness over my life as He mercifully brings healing to my broken heart and continues to bring healing to my broken body.
As I’ve walked a pain filled, complicated and broken road, I’m learning that ultimately the best of the Lord’s goodness is simply… Him.
His tabernacling, His dwelling with us.
His very presence is in the midst of the unfolding goodness of each day.
10 days ago I began a 100 day journey. This quest is my own little personal mission to look even more intentionally, every day and all around me, for the goodness of the Lord.
Every day, watching for His goodness. It’s everywhere and constant. And as near as my very next breath.
Join with me on this journey?
#100 Days of Goodness#He’s not done with me yet#The best is yet to come!