Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!"
(Ps.32:10b-11).
No matter what my circumstances, Jehovah's love surrounds me. Whatever is going "wrong" as I see it, still God is the same and has not changed. His love has not changed. His plans, His wisdom, remain unmoved, and He has promised that they are for good for those He loves.
If I would believe that practically, not just in my head, there would be less worrying, more peace. I fret that my son might never fully develop and mature; but God's plans are higher, and His design is not just for the physical things, but for my heart (and Peter's I hope) to know Him. To be near Him. To know more of Him and hold Him more dearly.
O to realize in each moment, that this life is not "Life" but rather the training ground for it! That God is the one great goal of my life, and whatever leads me closer to Him, is good. To focus less on success and results in my endeavors, and more on gladly serving my King in whatever assignment He gives me today.
"Our life is not the way we plot it or plan it. And so I guess all along I've just accepted whatever assignment the Lord gave me. This was his assignment... The greatest problem is unrealistic expectations. We naturally want to hold our loved ones to what they were... instead of accepting them for what they are. ... So I say, in acceptance there's peace. Accept them as they are. Don't try to change them or hold them back to what they used to be." (From an article about a man's care of his wife who had Alzheimer's.)
I need to have that attitude too: accepting whatever assignment God gives me today, and gladly (don't I keep telling my kids they need to "obey sweetly"?). And accepting of whatever Peter is, while both pushing him to develop as much as possible and at the same time not being frustrated that he is not what other babies are.
