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“As the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest to settle her young, my home is by Your altars, LORD of hosts, my king and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They never cease to praise You.

Blessed the man who finds refuge in you, in their hearts are pilgrim roads. As they pass through the Baca valley, they find spring water to drink. The early rain covers it with blessings. They will go from strength to strength and see the God of gods on Zion.

LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; listen, God of Jacob. For a sun and shield is the LORD God, bestowing all grace and glory. The LORD withholds no good thing from those who walk without reproach.”

PSALMS 84
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Though I Walk Through the Valley

We are meant to “struggle”.
{{This is a consequence from The Fall after Adam & Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden}}

Please see that these moments of struggle with sorrow, hardships, & trials are unavoidable in our human lives… BUT we have been given the tools needed to endure them.

We are never alone ♥

I had my bible opened up to Psalm 34 while watching The Chosen. A few good notes jotted down in the perfect place <3 [[ Jesus told Simon, “Just keep your eyes on Me” ]]

Sorrow does not mean you are failing or not living up to your calling. The Lord calls us to sorrow and trials and hardship …. He allows us to walk through MANY valleys. They are meant to shape our faith – to prompt further leaning into Him that ultimately strengthens us (building up our resiliency, in a way).

Each new trial encourages us to remain steadfast in the Lord, as He is always with us to help us through.

We need only have faith.

While Simon was away learning and sharing Jesus’ message, his wife Eden has a messy miscarriage and loses what should have been the couples’ first child. Simon returns home and Eden finally confides in him the tragic update. Simon starts to doubt Jesus – he knows Jesus can perform miracles but still allowed his unborn child to perish. Simon decides to address Jesus in this scene – it allows us to see that our steadfast faith will save us.

Pray for endurance and to always have unwavering faith in your sorrow/trials.


Daily Grace had a podcast this morning that discussed women and mental health as it relates to our faith. You can listen to it here. The guest speaker is Julie Busler, author of Joyful Sorrow: Breaking Through the Darkness of Mental Illness.

There are several more episodes specific to WOMEN of today and keeping present in faith. Visit their site for more podcast episodes and to shop bible study accessories. They also have an App!

The Book of James has this to say about trials and temptations:

“Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and he will be given it. But he should ask in faith, not doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed about by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord, since he is a man of two minds, unstable in all his ways.”

‭‭James‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬-‭8‬ ‭NABRE‬‬

“Blessed is the man who perseveres in temptation, for when he has been proved he will receive the crown of life that he promised to those who love him. No one experiencing temptation should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God is not subject to temptation to evil, and he himself tempts no one. Rather, each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers: all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change. He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
James‬ ‭1‬:‭12‬-‭18‬ ‭NABRE‬‬

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