BUT I DO KNOW
I don't know all your story-lines, blueprints or plans,
nor how all of infinity flows through your Hands.
I can't grasp all your mysteries, your methods, your Mind,
or your thoughts so impossibly higher than mine.
I can't always perceive that "all things work for good";
when in pain, it's not easy to think that they could.
So I don't know why at some times I bask in your Grace,
while at others it seems like You've hidden your Face;
and I don't know why some days bring smiles, some days grief;
some hold fears and delays, others grateful relief,
but I DO know You love me - through smooth seas or rough.
I know that YOU ARE...and that's more than enough!
************************(Becky Rhon)*****************
This was something we had to remember when we heard that Dan was being deployed to Iraq.
Let me back up a bit. When Steve and Debbie were married in April, KC was three months pregnant. Our first grandchild! We were all so excited. It was an occasion to "bask in His Grace" when Noemí Eliza was born in October. We were able to fly up to El Paso to meet the lovely little baby who had joined the family.
But when she was only a couple of months old, Dan had to leave for the Middle East with the medical staff...for a whole year! It was a time when the emotions in this poem were in the fore. Dan and KC prepared as best they could. Dan installed a webcam so that he could watch his little girl from thousands of miles away. Before he left, he taped a video of himself reading stories and talking to Noe (her nickname), and KC would play it daily. Even when Noe was a little older and could choose which video she wanted to see, the one Daddy made for her was always a favorite!
Dan was allowed one trip home for a couple of weeks, when he could re-connect with his wife and daughter in person. KC, completely in charge of the house and home now, learned to do many things she hadn't had to do before. Through this time of growth and stretching, God was their anchor.
Then a few months after Dan got back, WE got a special treat: Dan, KC and Noe were coming down to Quito for a visit! The day Germán went to pick them up from the airport, I got up from my afternoon rest and walked into the living room...and couldn't believe my eyes. Debbie was sitting there! What a wonderful surprise. (Steve hadn't been able to make it. They had moved to California, and he was just starting a new job.) What a joy to be together again!
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"God said to Moses, 'I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: "I AM has sent me to you."'" (Ex. 3:14)
God tells us that His thoughts "are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways." (Isaiah 55:8) In a way, that can sound sort of scary!! But I AM's "story-lines and blueprints, mysteries and methods" are not to be feared. He also says "For I know the plans I have for you...plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11)
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Let's rest in this promise: "But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear Him, and his righteousness with their children's children - with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts." (Psalm 103:17)
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