Weakness, Strength, Contentment, & Change

But [God] 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

We are moving.  There have been more ups and downs this week than I have ever experienced in my life.  There have been more emotions and feelings than I have ever dealt with in such a short period of time.  I am tired and overwhelmed and weak, and in some strange way I feel stronger, at more peace, and more provided for from my Heavenly Father than ever before.  I probably won't share a lot of the details here... but this scripture and this quote that I found this morning say it all.  There is a reason.  For all of it.  There is a reason that finding contentment was my personal goal since the beginning of the new year.  A reason that Corey and I got to go away an fortify our relationship the weekend before everything broke loose.  A reason that we have been surrounded by stories of hardships that make us thankful for ours.  A reason.

“God never place us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting, petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress.”

Elizabeth Prentiss