Please continue to pray for Laura and the Rock family. Laura has managed to hold on but is still in a coma, in need of her liver to be miraculous healed or to receive a new liver, and she is retaining fluid so they have put a "screw" into her brain to help with this. Please also pray for wisdom for the doctors and good communication between the doctors because the information that the Rock's receive seems to change with each new shift and doctor. Please pray for strength, peace, and comfort for the Rock's as well. And above all else, continue to pray that God would be glorified in all of this.

It seems selfish to ask for your prayers in light of things like the Rock's are going through. I do ask for your prayers as well. I am just in a period of brokenness, confusion, uncertainty, and stress. My good friend Dave spoke truth into me last night as I was moaning and he reminded me that although what I am experiencing is difficult, there are far worse things going on in the world and the lives of others.

This morning I was reading in Job chapters 1 and 2 and a few verses struck a chord within me that I'd like to share with you:

Job 1:21 "He said . . . The Lord gave me everything I had and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!" (NLT)

Job 2:10 "But Job replied . . .. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" (NLT)

This morning I am reminded of my need of God. I am reminded of my weakness. I am reminded of messiness. I am reminded that in all of this, both good and bad, his grace is enough.

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10 (NIV).

Amen.