Perspective....

It's everything I have recently learned. Our little family has had a rough go as of late with illness and life and money and time. Anna is finally on the mend, no more flu, teaching is good and Stephen is really enjoying school. Finances are strapped, but that is what happens when you go to school full time. We had a rough weekend and I found myself thinking and praying things like, is it ever going to get any easier... Lord, I don't understand....why does this sort of thing have to happen. I mean, we are fine...I know these thoughts sound a bit dramatic, and this is where the title of my post comes in.
So Sunday night I get online and read an email from a woman that I just recently met in our Sunday school class, titled, "Day by Day". She is about my age and has three children under the age of five. She and her husband are the cutest couple; full of energy and I thought to myself the morning that I met her, that she was really someone I would love to befriend in the near future. Her husband just left this past Sunday for a 6 month deployment to Afganistan. When I saw the title of her email, my reaction was....oh dear. I thought she would be wailing about the woes of being a military wife and how hard it would be. And don't get me wrong, she had every right to do that, I was just expecting a negative email is all I am saying. It was the very much the opposite. I have never felt so uplifted by an email as I was by her writing about how the Lord would sustain them, and even though she may lower her eyes at times, she would continue to look towards the hills, from where her comfort came. UH! I was humbled by the strength of this woman in a trial I could not even begin to imagine.
Then, about an hour later, ( apparently I had not learned my lesson ) we get another email from a man who we knew from Man 2 Man ( the men's ministry Stephen was involved with in Victoria ) who had just been in a wreck that morning with his wife and two young girls. They were sitting still at a light and someone rear ended them going 80 miles an hour. There poor precious little girl had massive head injuries that by all means should have done MAJOR brain damage, but through amazing work from surgeons in the Dallas area and our gracious Lord, she looks to be out of the woods and on the road to recovery.
Needless to say, I am VERY thankful for what I have and I will let God take care of the stuff I can't handle, because I know He is big enough. But, he knows me and knows every now and then I need a little reminder about perspective. : )