Ever been hit with news or been thrust into the midst of a situation that threatens to overwhelm you?<\/p>\n
Yeah\u2026 me, too. Read on and let me share a little of my heart with you\u2026<\/p>\n
The house is quiet. I can finally write. But how do I express all that my heart wants to say? How do I put into words the feelings of my heart?<\/p>\n
Perhaps I can\u2019t, but I must try.<\/p>\n
With so many around me hurting and suffering, my heart yearns to help, to ease the pain, to \u201cfix it.\u201d But over my nearly forty years, I\u2019ve learned that \u201cfixing it\u201d isn\u2019t always the best solution for truly helping. Often going through the process, walking through the dark valley, brings us more blessing and growth than a quick fix.\u00a0 Often, the struggle is<\/em> the path to blessing..<\/p>\n But how do I convey that to my heart? My heart that longs to make everything alright again, my heart that so desperately wants to take the pain, anger, frustration and hurt away from those I love.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t\u2026 but God can.<\/p>\n El Roi \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the names of God in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n It means– the God who sees.<\/em><\/p>\n He sees your pain, your anger, your frustration, your hurting heart. He knows what you\u2019re going through and He\u2019s right there with you. None of it catches Him by surprise. And He is still in complete control\u2026 even when your world seems so out of control.<\/p>\n And He loves you so deeply. He wants to hold your heart tightly while it slowly begins to mend and heal. He wants\u00a0the pain or the situation to bring beautiful growth in you.<\/p>\n He will never force anyone to accept His love and comfort\u2026\u00a0 Yet He willingly offers it to any and all who need it.<\/em><\/p>\n Patiently waiting, He listens for our faint cries that we\u2019ve had enough, that we just can\u2019t do it on our own! He listens for the deep groaning, too deep for words, that flows directly from our hearts. When God hears those, He quickly gathers us into\u00a0His mighty and powerful, yet gentle, arms. His strength and love flooding every fiber of our being.<\/p>\n We are safe.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We are loved\u2026 always and forever, no matter what!<\/p>\n Then the peace starts spreading through every part of us and our crazy situation.<\/p>\n Did our circumstances change? More than likely\u2026 not.<\/p>\n But our outlook does. We now have hope. We are safe and secure, no matter what comes our way. We know whatever we face, we don\u2019t have to face it alone and we no longer need to be afraid of anything.<\/p>\n We are safe and loved in the arms of El Roi.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever been hit with news or been thrust into the midst of a situation that threatens to overwhelm you? Yeah\u2026 me, too. Read on and let me share a little of my heart with you\u2026 The house is quiet. I can finally write. But how do I express all that my heart wants to say? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[27,35,38,50,61,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}