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“…But he who trusts in the Lord, mercy shall surround him.”
Psalm 32:10 KJV

Before lifting my head off my pillow this morning I looked over to where my husband Brad once laid beside me and said out loud, “I wish you were still here.”

I also wished for another time…another place…another life.

As I slowly got up to face a day I thought would be filled with the weight of these distressing desires, I made my coffee and sat down to read my morning devotions and Scriptures. I found a better answer to my wishes within the first moments of sitting beside Jesus as I read…

“But he who trusts in the Lord, mercy shall surround him.”
Psalm 32:10

As my heart took in this promise…I felt the Lord’s mercy covering me. I prayed and thanked Him that I can place my trust so confidently in Him. Then I began to read the story about the late Fanny Crosby, who was blind since infancy. Her mother asked her once if she ever resented being blind but her answer was this: She would choose to remain blind because she knew the first face she will ever see will be of her Savior.

Hers are powerfully convicting words to those who lack contentment in their predicaments.

With more than 8,000 hymns to her credit, Fanny remained confident in her visually impaired state, believing she never would have been able to had she had her sight.

I couldn’t help but consider my own “blindness” after reading Fanny Crosby’s words.

I have a choice in how I see my life. For I am given by the Holy Spirit the power to see the joy in my trials…the godly purpose in my frustrations….the good in my pain…and the strength to live each day by trusting that where I am right now…is God’s place for me.

Trusting Jesus is where my search for contentment found its rest.

May my life bring honor and glory to God alone.

“And don’t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God’s place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life. Don’t think I’m being harder on you than on the others. I give this same counsel in all…”
1 Corinthians 7:17 The Message