Please excuse me if my thoughts are jumbled because I'm still processing the news and my emotions. Because we've been so open about the fact that we're adopting and our match, Dustin and I felt it was best to go ahead and tell everyone now as opposed to later for a couple of reasons. Even before we got the news that she'd changed her mind, both Dustin and I had multiple people talk to us about our upcoming due date and arrival because everyone has been so genuinely excited for us.

Yes, life is hard, but God is good You start to cry 'Cause you've been strong for so long And that's not how you feel You try to pray But there's nothing left to say So you just quietly kneel In the silence of all that you face God will give you His mercy and grace Jesus never said It was an easy road to travel He only said that you would never be alone. Lone wolf mcquade. Life Is Hard (God Is Good) This song is by Pam Thum and appears on the album Feel The Healing (1995).

People literally ask us every day and everywhere we go, and it would be so awkward of us for someone to ask us who hasn't heard. And also because we still covet your prayers. We've both been blown away by close friends and family who have covered us in prayer and have spoken truth to us in this time. Adoption is so hard. Infertility is so hard. The strong desire to be a parent without any success is so hard.

And we don't understand why God allows some things to happen, but He does. I'm reminded that God is always good and everything He does is for His glory and our good-that is, to be more like Christ. Dustin and I reminded ourselves that when we began this journey, all we have wanted is for God to be glorified. So in the midst of our pain, we are trusting in Him and His plan for us and our future children.

Even when I don't understand what is going on and it hurts, He knows what's best. He only does good things. Life is hard because sin entered the world in Genesis 3 and the world has been groaning for redemption ever since. I'm so sorry to hear this news. Thank you for sharing the highs and lows of your journey to become parents. I feel heart broken for you all and feel so connected to your story because you've been so good about sharing.

I will be doubling down in my prayers for your family and know that God's timing will be perfect. Thinking of you and sending prayers of comfort to you and Dustin. Have this song on my heart for you this morning: God will make a way where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see. He will make a way for me.

Everybody faces these questions at some point in their faith. They aren’t bad questions.But if we don’t surrender them to the Lord and trust His promises, they can cause us to stumble and fall away.I know this from experience. I was going through an immensely difficult time in my life and I lost sight of God’s love for me because of these questions.How could He let me suffer so much? And why was He allowing such horrible things in my life and the lives of those I loved? It was a dark time, but it didn’t have to be.The reason it became so difficult was because I had lost the hope of Christ.

I stumbled in my faith and felt alone.Trusting God is good when life is hard is one of the most important ways to hold onto hope no matter what you are going through.I learned this the hard way.It’s no easy task relying on God’s promises when everything in you screams there’s no hope. I’ve seen those I love walk away from faith in God for this very reason.But this is where we are misled.God’s goodness does not equal pain-free living.

In fact, we are told that this world holds trouble.' I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.' -John 16:33From the moment that Adam and Eve gave into temptation, sin was brought into the world and has since then, ravaged through mankind.But God’s plan for salvation was set in place from that very moment. He knew we would need a savior.

He knew that we would fall away.To be honest, if you and I were in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, we would have fell to temptation too. The Powerful GraceGod knew that we would need the powerful and heart-changing grace that he poured out in the death of Jesus Christ.Without the unending mercy and forgiveness of Christ, we would be destined to destruction.This grace allows us to return to the Lord with the expectation of eternity and redemption.This grace is what gives us hope.When life gets tough, you can rely on the powerful grace of Christ. This grace is molding you and shaping you to be beautiful and redeemed. True Hope in SufferingTo hope in suffering goes against our natural inclination.

Naturally, we want to avoid suffering. Naturally we want to do everything we can to diminish our trials.But God asks us to live with a different mindset.He tells us that these trials, these sufferings, they are what bring us hope. They are what produce perseverance and redemption.Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.Romans 5:3-5It is through the trials we face that we grow closer to Christ and eternity.When life is hard, you can lean on Christ’s transforming power to create lasting and true hope within you. In All ThingsNo matter how hard things get, you must cling to this promise:And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.Romans 8:28In all things, God is working for your good.Don’t allow your emotions and feelings to be taken captive by Satan. Surrender your feelings of hopelessness, despair and grief to the Lord.

It’s okay to feel sad. It’s okay to feel hopeless.But you must remember that no matter how you are feeling, God is still working for your good.If you can rely on this promise, you will find the strength to walk in hope no matter how hard life gets.It took me a while to truly understand this promise. Because of all the suffering I’ve walked through, I thought that maybe that verse was wrong.I was convinced that God wasn’t working for my good but for His good.

And I tried my best to live for that promise. But it wasn’t enough.It wasn’t until I understood that God truly cares for my good and that what I view as good isn’t always what He knows is good for me, that I could find hope. Trusting God’s Definition of GoodWe all have our own ideas of what is good. But God sees our lives from a completely different perspective.He sees our lives from a perfect perspective.What we view as good often equates to pain-free and lack of suffering.But God sees the good in going through discipline and trials.