If I were pregnant and informed that my fetus had Down syndrome I would absolutely abort. No amount of social media romanticizing of profound disability would change my mind. Contrary to popular opinion, you need more than love to care for a disabled child.
I didn’t fully understand what David meant in Psalm 27 when he wrote, “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living,” until I walked through a season where seeing it felt almost impossible.
He wasn’t writing from a place of comfort. David wrote that amid enemies surrounding him, uncertainty, and a season where everything felt like it was working against him.
Yet he made a declaration not a wish or a prayer request, but a confident declaration that he would see God’s goodness in this life, not just eventually, but here.
I think of that for every woman in a hard season right now, wondering if things will ever turn around or if the goodness is real for others but not for her.
It is for you. The goodness is real and coming into your actual life not just your faith life into your relationships, health, finances, peace, and the areas where you’ve waited longest.
Stay confident, not because you can see it yet, but because He said it. And what He says doesn’t return void. 🤍
I found a prayer in Ruth 3:18
Lord, for matters concerning my life & destiny, let men & women whom you have chosen & touched to help me not rest until it's settled for my good and in my favor. And may I learn to wait patiently for how you work it out.🧡
I remember praying and telling God to give me a job that will also allow me to mother my daughter. I am always home by 4:30pm we do home work and catch up then I make dinner.He really Did that.