{"id":16321,"date":"2012-05-18T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2012-05-31T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T01:30:33","slug":"lessons-in-surrendering-to-gods-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/lessons-in-surrendering-to-gods-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in Surrendering to God’s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” Jeremiah 1:5<\/p>\n

I take a lot of comfort in the above line from Jeremiah because not only do I have two wonderful girls that the Lord has blessed me with and charged me to care for. I also have my own personal cheering section in heaven who are watching over me and praying for me. Let me explain, over the past six years or so we’ve experienced a number of miscarriages as we’ve tried to be open to God’s plan for our family. While each one of these has been a painful experience they’ve also been a lesson in surrendering to God’s will.<\/p>\n

I will often include in my night prayers, a prayer to God for his will to be done. I do this during the good times, because I know without God there would be no good times. I also do it as a reminder, so that when the bad times come I know that His will will guide us.<\/p>\n

People have asked me, “Does it make you angry”? My typical response is, “at first yes”, but I also know that God know better then I do and if He saw fit to only give us these children for a short time. Then I have to trust that he knows best. It does give me a bit more incentive to get to heaven though. Not that spending eternity in the beatific vision isn’t enough, cause it is. With that being said, the only things I want to hear after the Father tells me, “Well done, my good and faithful servant…” is<\/p>\n

“Hi, Dad…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” Jeremiah 1:5 I take a lot of comfort in the above line from Jeremiah because not only do I have two wonderful girls that the Lord has blessed me with and charged me to care for. I also have my own personal cheering section in… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t