8 Years After the Fire

After the fire… 8 years ago…

Only the Lord knows the gamut of mixed emotions I’m feeling as I saw this picture today.

All the things I lost -

All whom I did not lose -

A sovereign God allowed

What I would never choose.

Kind and faithful friends

From far away and near

Loved and helped me in

My numb distress and fear.

Fear of the unknown:

“What will we all wear?

“Where will we call home?”

Yet, never out of God’s care.

Now, from a lovely parsonage-

Abundantly fed and clothed-

My confidence remains in God

Who tender mercies showed.

Through storms of fire or ice,

With parched or flooded soul,

God is with me in the sunshine

And when the dark clouds roll.

~jlw

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