The Utmost Thanks

 Bless the Lord, O my soul

O my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning

It's time to sing Your song again

Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me

Let me be singing when the evening comes

Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

You're rich in love, and You're slow to anger
Your name is great, and Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

And on that day when my strength is failing
The end draws near and my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years and then forevermore

Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

Jesus, I'll worship Your holy name
Lord, I'll worship Your holy name

Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name
Jesus, I'll worship Your holy name
I'll worship Your holy name

I wrote about our Girl's heart in a past blog post, and this Tuesday we went to our 3 week follow up appointment with the specialist to check on her heart. We had been praying for peace and healing and that we would not see those nasty VSDs on our sweet baby's heart when she popped up on the screen. Unfortunately the tears were still there on the heart between the left and right side. 

Last appointment I felt the wind knocked out of me upon receiving the news, with flashbacks to last summer. But this time there was no sadness, but a peace. A peace in knowing that our God knows the path for our daughter. There was no stress of what if this happens or that, but a trusting in the news and knowing God's plan is better than the one we had for ourselves. And come on, who could be sad when they just showed us a sonogram of a dancing baby girl and a sweet 4 cm baby foot?!? 


The Lord's promise was singing through my head the entire appointment, "I won't give you more, more than you can take. And I might let you bend, but I won't let you break. And I'll never let you go. Don't forget what I said."  There is such power in those words. And yes there are days when I wake up thinking about the what if's but I surrender daily and give those worries to our God, who takes them from us. 


After our Lake House vacation to Pennsylvania :) our family of 3 has an appointment with a Cardiology team to look in detail at our Girl's heart. They will be able to tell us more about the VSDs and what it may look like if the tears do not heal on their own. At our last appointment we were reassured that she will not need to be hooked up to tubes, or sent to ICU because of the VSDs it might just mean an extra once over and EKG of her heart before we are released to go home with our daughter. (Oh the excitment, when I heard those words... perspective :) And my very literal husband asked, "On a scale of 1 to 10 how critical is this issue? Maybe a 2 or a 3?" Don't you love him? The Dr. said, "No, more like a 1.5" Okay perspective #2. 


Our Daughter is going to be okay.... we are being stretched, when after last summer we didn't think we could be stretched any thinner. But I am comfortable with the stretching. God is drawing us to Him and creating us to be the family He desires. 


We are so thankful for the prayers of family and friends. We are praying for that Cardiology appointment on August 6th. We are praying for healing and that we would see no VSDs. But until then we are giving thanks that every 3 weeks we have been able to see our daughter grow and dance around when we meet with these specialists. Perspective #3. 

Bless the Lord, Oh my Soul!