It Is Well

It almost feels like deja vu. A year after the momentous tenth anniversary of 9/11, we prepare to remember that day in history once again. Somehow I feel the significance of it even more this year after spending nearly ten months researching, preparing, and delivering a speech to many judges and friends about that awful event.

I think back to a story that one parent judge shared with me some time after she had seen my speech. It seems that her son was preparing to leave for Iraq and for months she simply hadn't been able to see how that could possibly be a part of God's plan. But after seeing that God's sovereignty remains supreme even through an event as terrible as 9/11, she chose to accept that fact and put all of her trust in Him. I was touched and extremely humbled in hearing her story and in reading the stories of many others on ballots that I received (and even one facebook message!). So many lives affected in the span of only several hours.

Our country couldn't be the same after that day. I am not the same person I was last year (a link to my post a year ago: http://unashamedgirlofchrist.blogspot.com/2011/09/through-flames.html). You, I am certain, are not the same person that you were at this time last year. Only One truly stays the same and it is only by surrendering whole-heartedly unto Him that any one of us can say:

"When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul." 

~Hannah Grace