Songs

This week I thought that I would post another entry to this blog.  Usually I share about our family here, and I don't put a lot here unless it only pertains to our journey of losing Caden specifically.  Most of my life does relate to losing Caden, but this week, something caught my attention.  Yesterday in church, we ended up going to the later service and the music was absolutely great!!!!  One of the songs that we sang at the closing was, "Blessed Be Your Name".  As I sat there in church singing this song, I felt myself start to cry, and I was wondering what in the world was I doing? 

The lyrics to the song are below and really were so very hard to hear five years ago when we first lost Caden, but I didn't think that they would still have that same emotional effect on me as it did then.  The lyrics are a little hard to take at first, but they are so true.  It is hard to feel blessed when hard things happen, but God does have a purpose and knows what's in store.  Here are the lyrics:

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

This week at church I learned that there is much to learn in the desert places of life.  That time five years ago was definitely my desert moment, but God also taught me so much about Him and about myself.  I also started to realize what things are important and that this world is only temporary.

Hopefully someone reading this can learn something from this song and also from their desert moments too.