Faith in The Fog.

The one thing I have promised myself and my readers is to be honest.  Last week was a tough week.  I was hit with hurt after hurt.  News after news that wasn't so good for my family that I had to process.  At one point everything became a fog.  Tears flowed.  I am a tough cookie though.  I don't need sympathy. I am a caretaker of a person who has battled mental illness for over 9 years. I am someone that is a professional at getting back up after getting knocked back down by life.  I've had depression, anxiety and the wind knocked out of me enough and worried about what tomorrow, which is why I now laugh when people question my faith in God.  How can I not have faith in my God.  We are still here.   We are alive.  We both love God.  He has come so far and I could not be more proud.  By the way,  I have his full support to put anything about our life in this blog.  The reason we chose to is because of facts.   1 in 3 people are treated with some sort of mental illness.  Think of the people that are suffering that are not treated. 

I share this because you need to know life is not easy.  It hurts.  But the ability of Jesus Christ to walk beside you and pull you out of the depths of the darkest of the dark is real.  The ability of Jesus Christ to be there through the hardest of the hard times is real.  He is the one and only that will never judge you.  He is one and only that will never laugh at you and not judge your journey of why you have to walk the path you must walk.  He will never feel the need to leave you.  He will truly love you when you are unlovable to the rest of the world.   When nothing in the fog makes sense, He is there.  When you have to sit through the fog until it clear,  He still and always will the the everlasting God who never changes.  The great I am.  The on who will not Unfriend you.  The one who will not make you cry.  The one who will not make you question what you did wrong.  The one that will love you through the crazy, confusing heartaches that no one knows you are going through.  He is the comforter.  The great I AM.  When he leads you to write a blog to help others.  That's it.  You don't have to be hurt or explain yourself.  IT is done.  You put yourself out there and it is done because he said so.  He knows if for no other reason but for the reason HE knows.

He lifts all heartaches.  He is not a cliche you don't fit into anymore.  He is not the hush that falls on the room when you walk in.  He gives you the comfort to know that it doesn't matter.  The people that love you, love you.  The end.  The people that find fault in things God directed you in, Can't matter in the bigger picture because for your mentally well being, you can't and won't worry about what other's think of you.

So if God directs you to do something to help others.  Do it.  Step out in faith.  Tell the truth and do it.

I got hurt.  I am fine.  God will help me figure the rest out somehow.  My faith has to be bigger than my worry.

Just know that life with Jesus Christ doesn't mean it's easy.  Doesn't mean you won't have obstacles.  But it means it's always worth it.  Even if you're thrown in the spotlight and you feel like you stand alone in that spotlight.  Because you don't.  He is always with you.