Great is Thy Faithfulness
posted on 11/02/2009
I just left Tucker's room after feeding, rocking, and laying him down to sleep. I still have that sweet baby smell on my hands.
It's been a really tough weekend....so much so, that I texted my sister-in-law tonight and told her that I didn't think I was cut out for this. (This being motherhood.) She so kindly pointed out that it's a little too late for THAT revelation.
But that was just my feeling at the end of this awful, tear-filled, homesick, lonely, hate-the-cold-weather weekend.
So as I rocked my baby boy tonight, I confessed all my failures and shortcomings to my Father. Tears rolled down my face as I, once again, admitted to Him that I am desperate, weak, poor in spirit, and in need of rescue. I nearly sobbed as I asked for forgiveness for all the myriad of ways that I wronged my husband and my children over the past 3 days.
As I watched Tucker's eyes slowly close, I felt the Holy Spirit, my Comforter, come sit with me. And the words of that old hymn came flooding over me, so much so that I had to sing them out loud.
Great is Thy Faithfulness, O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou faintest not, Thy compassions they fail not
As thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be.
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning, new mercies I see
All I have needed, Thy hand has provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.
