rise

My heart is heavy this week. Three weeks ago we found out my good friend was pregnant with what we hoped was a baby girl. An ultrasound confirmed what she feared, no baby had formed. If she is accurate with her dates, no baby is present. I wrote out a little note from Matthew 5:4, Blessed are the sad, for they will be comforted. I absolutely know about sadness when we lost our baby brother to a sad, unexpected accident a year ago. I  believe God sends his comforter for the broken hearted, but as I discuss this with my friend I also have to point out we must be at a place where we seek that comforter. You have heard people say 'well when I was sad, there wasn't any one or anything that would take away my sadness, God just didn't care'. I believe we have to at least make an attempt, we don't have to cross that road all the way, but we have to reach and at least make an attempt to meet him. That is when he pours out his mercy and grace on our lives and takes our broken hearted away. I listen to contemporary/alternative christian music, and Shawn McDonald has a song 'Rise' that says 'yes I will rise, out of these ashes rise, from this trouble I have found and this rubble on the ground I will rise, cause He who is in me is greater than I will ever be'. Beautiful lyrics for the broken hearted.