take 2: september 27th – inside/out

Hi Sweetheart,

Here we are at Monday again, the start of another week.  I was looking at a mini-calendar I have and realized that next Monday is the 4th.  You are starting back to work then.  When you first told me that was the date it sounded so far off, and here it is.  From your last letter is sounds like Mals has several willing caretakers for when you’re at work.  I’ll be praying for you especially, I kmow it won’t be easy spending time away from her.  Hopefully, like you said in the letter, this will provide a break for you from constant kid-duty. I worry at times, actually quite often, about the load you have been and will be carrying.  But I also know that you love the college kids and they love you.  God is “at home” in a situation like that, and He is faithful.

I’d like to share with you something out of today’s reading in “Our Daily Bread.”  The title for today is “God’s Tender Care” and it talks about trusting God to care for us today.  There is a part in particular that sticks out to me:

Perhaps you’ve known times when friends seem to forget you in your sorrow.  They fail to call or write, or promise to pray.  But those are the times when we can sense God’s tenderness most deeply.  When the days are long and no one seems to care, He seeks us out and surrounds us with His lovingkindness.  Our sorrow, for from burdening Him,  draws out His tender compassion.  He knows the troubles of our soul and He cares.

It is followed by this poem:

O yes He cares–I know He cares!
His heart is touched with my grief;
when the days are weary, and the nights are dreary,
I know my savior cares!

I’m not exactly sure why that jumped out at me, maybe because we are currently in His care.  Maybe it is because we’ve experienced days like the ones described above.  But it touched my heart and encouraged me, I hope that it does the same for you.

I love you sweetgirl!  Have a great week.

Love, Scott

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