The Fatherless....They find their rest at the sound of your GREAT NAME!!

I have been playing Your Great Name by Natalie Grant over and over and over....

How can these words not calm the heart of a Momma who can't seem to see the end of the journey to bring home a daughter that I already love...

All the weak; find their strength; at the sound of your great name Hungry souls; receive grace; at the sound of your great name The fatherless; they find their rest; at the sound of your great name Sick are healed; and the dead are raised; at the sound of your great name 

There is only one line in this song that speaks of the Fatherless... but that had kinda triggered a quest to find what the Bible says about the Fatherless and caring for them. So far this is what I have found... over 60... YES 60 times in the Bible our Great God calls us to care for the Fatherless!!

Ricky and I have been on this journey of faith over the past two years... Why do we believe what we do? What does the Bible say about the Church? Are we really living like God has called us to, or are we comfortable with saying things like; "I love my Jesus and come to church with me?" or should we really be saying things like "I LOVE my Jesus and God I want to be used to bring Glory to your Name no matter what the cost!!"

You know when you are little, like around 9 or 10 and you seem to be growing so fast that you are turning into this awkward weird looking half adult? When you wake up in the middle of the night screaming from growing pains in your legs or back?? In my true blogger fashion I want to keep it real... so I am not going to say that this has been a peaceful journey of faith. There have been those nights where there was crying out in pain... there have been plenty of moments where we/I felt like an awkward preteen not really sure where I belonged or fit in anymore. But slowly I/we are coming out on the other end... very very slowly.

In my journey to understand what I believe I had to come up with a standard, a constant. What is the God that I believe in passionate about? And what does He ask of me? When I started I wasn't sure how I was going to figure out what God was Passionate about... then the more I read my Bible the more I understood that He talks about it A LOT! The things that our amazing God is passionate about and calls His people to be passionate about are things that He speaks into the scripture over and over.
There were many, and I am thankful to have been able to understand a little more where my own passions need to be focused. I was also thankful for the a better  understanding of the longing of my own heart for many years.    

This is getting to be a longer post than I planned, but I am going to continue to post over the next few weeks about how my sweet God had a plan for my life before I even was old enough to understand what an adult life would look like and how now as an adult the pains of getting where I am suppose to be have began to shape not only my own life, but how our family looks and what my children will hopefully remember about me.