...sparrow

So, today has been a really hard day for some people here at home. Some people's lives have totally been changed. At First Baptist Shreveport a bus carrying 23 people on a youth trip flipped when the driver lost control. One is dead and several others in critical care. While we ask ourselves why all I can think of is that our God is the God who provides. The God who gives and who takes away, and no matter the season may his name be lifted high.

My heart is full, it seems to be breaking. It is being pushed and prodded in it's aching state. I feel alone as if my world is folding in on me. "God where were you when my heart was breaking"? I ask so foolishly. He answers: " I was there picking up the pieces and forming it again for my glory." Then I ask again of the almighty: "God where were you when my world was folding in on me?" He answers: "I was your Atlas, holding you up above the storm." And then I stopped in my sorrow and sadness. I heard a small coo and I looked up and saw a sparrow. As it fell from his flight, I saw a tear fall from heaven. "How much more do I love you than a sparrow?" "You may not of noticed it, or even of been able to at the time. But I was that small voice inside urging you to go on! When you were crying, I was the strength inside letting you know that the sun comes in the morning. And when this storm enveloped you like grave clothes, I was the one who brought you the sun. And when you're hurting know this: no matter what the time, no matter when the hour; hold tight to me for I am your strong tower." Then I rose up from my sullen state, and while the pain was not gone I proclaimed to the Lord. "You are my shelter from my storm, you are the urge in me to go on. You are my King. So I will praise you when I dance, and I will praise you when I fall. You are my redeemer. For there is none like you. I am worth more to you than the sparrow's that you see fall. And I know that you are there to catch me when I stumble. May your name, my God, in the good and the bad forever be praised.

"...Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." -Matthew 10:28-31

*Dedicated to First Baptist of Shreveport. Our God is an awesome God, he reigns, from Heaven above with wisdom, power, and love our God is an awesome God.*