Seeing The Goodness of God in the Hard Seasons.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever. Psalm 26:6

It was the end of the summer of 2021. We were getting ready for our oldest son’s wedding that would be the following month. We were so excited for them! For a few months our son had been complaining that his lower back had been hurting. He was very involved in CrossFit and we just thought he had pulled a muscle. He went to the Chiropractor for a couple months hoping they would have a solution.. When that did not help he made an appointment with an orthopedic doctor thinking it was muscular.

Two weeks later our son went back for his follow up appointment. I still remember this so well. Them walking up to our front door. I instantly knew it wasn’t good news. I, my husband, soon to be daughter in law and our son sat down at the kitchen table. They were both in shock but what our son got out was “They think I have cancer.” He was 31 years old when he found out.

As I sit here and write these words I still have to stop and just humbly bow and praise God. He was so good to us through this time. Was this journey an easy journey?  Definitely not! Definitely hard for my son and his now wife. But it was also hard on his family, his friends, the people who loved him so much. It was hard to be a new wife and also a caretaker to her husband in such an intimate and raw way after being married only a week before. But for me his wife’s care of my son was one of many ways God showed me His goodness.

I am going to take the next few weeks to share more of this story from my point of view. Mainly to share how God is so good in the midst of our very hard days. Their story is theirs to share and with their permission I might share some of it. But my hope is as you read my story, our family’s story that you will be encouraged to hope again. To look for God’s goodness every single day. Even in those days when you don’t want to get out of bed. Those days when you don’t know how life will ever get better. I hope my post will give you courage to take the next step in trusting that God is good and His mercies are new everyday. We  just have to have the courage to look for them. 

I hope you will come back and allow me to share what God taught me during this journey and how I fought daily to see God’s goodness in the hardest part of my story. 

If you are reading this and are really struggling today to see God’s goodness. Please go to the contact page and send me a message and allow me to be praying for you. God loves you so much! 

In Christ,

Teresa