Waves and the Lifeguard

B and I often talk about this season in our lives - the best years of our lives.

At this moment our season is surrounded by growth and changes. Our children are growing, we're experiencing new things with them (college tours, high school sign ups, multiplication flash cards). New things and growing things...

Our nieces and nephews are having babies. We are attending weddings and baby showers... and funerals. Friends and family are ill... some pass away while others survive to see the next trial.

We had a friend pass away last week. It was a shock for our whole church family. 47 - a year older than B. Leaving a wife, a daughter and two boys. Too young to leave them. Too much left to do.

God's got plans we will never understand until later - much later.
Having faith in Him makes trials easier to navigate. He's got a plan and it's not job to figure it out. My job is to rest in the plan, the hold on to His promises and to allow Him to guide me through the rough the waves, whatever size they may be. My job is to allow my lifeguard to show me how to swim, to teach me how to tread the water, and to bring me back to shore, whenever He chooses.