Food For Thought, before I go get dinner...

How's that for irony in a blog title! I'm attempting to make it to church tonight...Wednesday nights typically don't get it for us, but I've really been wanting to do the Bible study that a friend of mine is leading. Anyway, that's beside the point...shortly after I got home this afternoon, I was on the phone with my dad, and he was telling me to keep praying for the family. There's some really wicked situations going on there, ones that have been ongoing. It's really frustrating, partly because I can't be there to show physical support, and also because I feel like I'm not help, that maybe if I were there I could do something...anything! I worry about my mom, I worry about Grandma, and other family members that are caught in the crossfire. Best I can do is pray...and, for some more irony, while I was showering the lyrics of a song I hear on the radio often by one of my favorite groups, Mercy Me, came to mind...so I'm going to close out here with the lyrics:

"Bring The Rain"

I can count a million times
People asking me how I
Can praise You with all that I've gone through
The question just amazes me
Can circumstances possibly
Change who I forever am in You
Maybe since my life was changed
Long before these rainy days
It's never really ever crossed my mind
To turn my back on you, oh Lord
My only shelter from the storm
But instead I draw closer through these times
So I pray

Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You
Jesus, bring the rain

I am Yours regardless of
The dark clouds that may loom above
Because You are much greater than my pain
You who made a way for me
By suffering Your destiny
So tell me what's a little rain
So I pray

Holy, holy, holy
Is the Lord God Almighty