When you're an ER nurse you learn very quickly to put up walls. You try not let things bother you. You try to leave it at the door and come home with a smile on your face. But this weekend was very different for me. When that ambulance rolls in, and death is at the door, you are concerned with one thing only, doing your job and saving a life. You aren't expecting to look up and see parents of a child in your church. Or to see your pastor hugging them with tears in his eyes. You aren't expecting it to be so close to home.
So, I wasn't able to leave it at the door this week. My heart has hurt every day for this family. But I know that God is faithful and that He is holy. I know that Christ will be glorified even through this tragedy. I know that J. got to meet his Savior.
As I am putting my babies down tonight, I am sad but grateful for another day. Sweet Elly asks me to sing her favorite song "Never Let Go".... how perfect, how incredibly perfect.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear
And even when I'm caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won't turn back
I know you are near
And I will fear no evil
For my God is with me
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?
Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go
Lord, You never let go of me
And I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
A glorious light beyond all compare
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
We'll live to know You here on the earth
Matt Redman
You Never Let GO
You Never Let GO
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