God's faithfulness never disappoints

Funny how art imitates life.  Tonight I was watching an episode of "Frasier."  The main character, Frasier Crane, talked about how you not only love your children, but you fall in love with your children.  How true.

And you don't even realize how much you are in love with your children until they leave you.  I remember Jeremy moving away to go to college.  I dreaded the summer weeks when Kelsey would leave for camp.  And this week, Emma is spending time with her grandmother.  Absence definitely makes the heart grow fonder.

Remember how, when you were in love with someone, you wanted nothing more than for them to be happy?  How you loved to make them smile?  Emma sent me a picture message tonight, via the cell phone, of her smiling.  How could I ask for anything more in life?  :)

I remember this summer just three years ago.  My father had passed away a few months before, as well as a  beloved aunt and uncle and a nephew.  My dog, just 4 years old, was sick with terminal cancer.  No one in this house was smiling.  I clung to this Scripture with all my heart:  "Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring up."  (Psalm 71:20)

Tonight was  a reminder of the faithfulness of God.  He has restored my life from the depths.  "I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.  My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you- I, whom you have redeemed."  (Psalm 71:22-23)