The power of disappointment… when God uses it for Great things.

My bedroom window is open with warm fresh spring air, the sounds of morning birds and a small bubbly water fountain blanketing my senses.  Although the sounds are completely different it reminded me of laying on my bed in mamas house and how God would comfort my heart each day.

With the recent excitement around the funding of our hearing program and our hearing specialist Judd committing to traveling with me, it would be easy to mute the disappointment I felt just 2 months ago.  The weight and desire to help our brother hear crushed in on me when my options were exasperated. I had tried so hard with all my strength and it wasn’t good enough. Not good enough to help him hear.

What overwhelmed me with gratitude and awe this morning while I laid here still was that discouragement was the motivator for bringing the story home. What God has done in the last couple of days through friends like you to prepare us for this upcoming September trip is 1000 times greater than what I was attempting on that day 2 months ago. All of my angst, disappointment and heartache was not for loss.

God can use our disappointments and discouragement for greatness… Way better than good. So I hear him nudging my heart with a new perspective and challenge on my crushing experiences, watch for those opportunities in your heartache to motivate you to reach high to heaven and let God’s blessing pour out over all He has for me and others.  Once again he’s saying… Go get it, in my timing!