"Jesus Will Meet You There"

Jill Sullivan, who lost her daughter Hannah to brain cancer, has been writing on her blog this last week about Steven Curtis Chapman's new album, "Beauty Will Rise." He wrote the entire album about the tragic loss of his little girl in an accident. The album is actually rip your heart out sad, but praises God at the same time. I saw a quote from him where he said that the songs were psalms to God from his heart. There are so many beautiful songs that will have the tears rolling but the song "Jesus Will Meet You There" is just so powerful!! It's a really heavy song but reminds us that no matter what we face in our life....Jesus is already there.

Jesus Will Meet You There

When you think you've hit the bottom
And the bottom gives way
And you fall into a darkness
No words can explain
And you don't know how you make it out alive
Jesus will meet you there.

When the doctor says "i'm sorry
We don't know what else to do."
And you're looking at your family
Wondering how they'll make it through...
Whatever road this life takes you down
Jesus will meet you there.

He knows the way to wherever you are
He knows the way to the depths of your heart
He knows the way cuz he's already been
Where you're going
Jesus will meet you there.

When the jury says "guilty"
And the prison doors close
When the one you love says nothing
Just packs up and goes
When the sunlight comes and your world's still dark
Jesus will meet you there.

When you've failed again and all your
Second chances have been used
And the heavy weight of guilt and shame
Is crushing down on you...
And all you have is one last cry for help
Jesus will meet you there.

He knows the way to wherever you are
He knows the way to the depths of your heart
He knows the way cuz he's already been
Where you're going

When you realize the dreams you've had
For your child won't come true
When the phone rings in the middle
Of the night with tragic news...
Whatever valley you must walk through
Jesus will meet you there.

He will meet you there.

Jesus will meet you there...

Mal's Home!!!

Mal came home on Thursday! We were so excited for her to be home finally...along with Karen and MiMi! We had an amazing service today at church organized by Jana Hardage. She did a great job pulling it all together and making sure things ran smoothly. We opened with a slideshow that I put together that basically covered the last three months in pictures from the car wreck to the waiting room while she was in PICU those first three weeks to her first bites of food then on to her first trips outside all the way through rehab at Baylor. It's amazing how much stronger and healthier she became across the three months and you can see her get stronger throughout the pictures. Jackie Tucker sang "Praise You in this Storm" to start the slideshow and then "Waiting on You Lord" played for the remainder. She did a very good job!



Also in the service, Tom Compton, our youth director, spoke about how Mal has impacted the youth and our church and though it was tough for him to do that as Mal's youth director...he did a great job! Another dear friend of ours, Brian Nivens, who coaches at Magnet Cove, spoke about how even kids at other schools have been impacted by Mal's testimony throughout this ordeal. He spoke from the heart and did a great job as well.



The youth group sang, Call on Jesus, which Mal loves and even though many are close friends of hers and were very emotional today they stepped up and did a great job and Mal really seemed to enjoy it. Jana then spoke and she sang "Jesus Bring the Rain" which is an awesome song and Mal had posted the words in her status one night. Jana is truly one of those people who can minister in music and has been such a blessing to me since she came to Caney!



We didn't leave much time for Bro Ro to preach but he did a great job of tying Mal's situation into his abbreviated sermon. He preached briefly on how we are supposed to be there to suffer when another member suffers and rejoice when another member rejoices. I know we do that at Caney..we brag when the bragging needs to be done and Caney has certainly stepped up and helped bear our burden since Mal's accident.



Here's the slideshow from this morning....

A Day of Contrasts

Today mom and I took Gracen to the ENT and Audiologist because she had failed her hearing screening at school. She has fluid in her ear and so he gave her antibiotics, steroids and a nasal spray to see if we can get it cleared up. Hopefully that will work as she does not want another set of tubes..she's had about 7 last time I counted it up with her last pair at age 6.

We had a good day though after the appt was over. We decided to make a day of it and went to the Park Plaza mall since we hadn't been in a while and look around. Justice is Gracen's new favorite store so we bought a few things in there, bought me some shoes I was needing, then had lunch and just browsed around for the afternoon. The guy in one of those booths lured us in and proceeded to curl Gracen's hair and sell us the iron he did it with..yeah we were suckers but he was from Israel and just too nice and Gracen loved it!

When we got home tonight we found out that a coaching friend of Marty's that is married to a girl from this area so lots in our area know them, lost their 10 year old daughter, Gracie, to complications from a seizure today. They lost their younger daughter about 6 years ago when she was 2 from the same thing. I had received a text about Gracie while I was shopping asking everyone to be praying for a miracle for her, and all day as I shopped with my Gracen it was in the back of my mind what they were going through today with their 10 yr old daughter and how very different our days were. I was having a wonderful day with my daughter and they were having the worst day of their lives...again.

Makes me want to hold my kids a little tighter and I am definitely so thankful for the blessed life we are living! Please say a prayer for this family now and in the days to come. They are going to need them.