When It Rains It Pours

This week has been one of those weeks.

The ones that start off badly with a BANG! One misfortunate event leads to another which leads to frustration which carries over into another day which ultimately determines the rest of the week's outcome.
I have put off some of my school work until the last minute and once I started doing it I realized how much there really was to do, on top of that I am under a lot of pressure to find a new job and plan a wedding. Time is going by extremely fast and I am really feeling the time crunch start to kick in.

I have been so distracted this week by the stressfulness intensity of school this week that I am realizing that I have been forgetting to praise my Lord.
Today it started raining...and when you're having a bad week rain is usually a sign that the universe hates you...but for some reason the rain started and the healing began. I decided that I would walk to class in the rain and that I would talk to and praise God.
Then I heard God start to talk to me about Job and about everything he lost and how he still praised God. I remembered that things can always be worse, even when you are having one of those weeks where it seems like everything is going wrong, things can always be SO much worse than they are and that if Job can praise God through his storm then we should too! I realized that I had forgotten that God knows my heart better than anyone else and he won't ever give me anything that I can't handle.
Then I started thinking about an email I got from someone that I had vented to. It said to picture your biggest stressor and imagine you are holding it in your hand. Then picture Jesus in front of you, loving you and reaching out to you. Now imagine Jesus taking your stressor from you....I opened my eyes from thinking about this and I could see Jesus holding my stress in his arms saying "You alone cannot handle these things, with me you can handle your biggest problems!" Then there in the rain I felt at peace.

God is so great and something SO very important that we all forget sometimes is that there is nothing that should take our focus or time away from Him. He has given us all we have to be thankful for and deserves our praise! No matter how our week is going.

But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing of joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love you name may rejoice in you." Psalms 5:11