Flashback Friday

2 years ago Stephen and I were invited to a destination wedding in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. It was our first vacation since having children and we had the most wonderful time. Part of the trip was in PV, the other part was in a remote part of Mexico called Yelapa, only reachable by boat.

The day after Matt and Dee's wedding, while still in Yelapa, we went on a snorkeling excursion. On our way out to a snorkeling sight, we saw some weird water movement, so the 'captain' (to use a term very loosely) turned the motor off and we sat and watched. A few seconds later our tiny boat was bumped and a humpback whale surfaced about 10 feet from us.

It was so amazing and scary all wrapped into one moment. I remember shaking, feeling the awesomeness of our Creator and all of His creation.
This is a moment I often go back to when I don't understand what is happening around me. I was petrified of these beings 4 times the size of our boat, but at that same moment I was peaceful, trusting and in awe of God's work, He is in every detail of this world.

Kristi's diagnosis is not good. But I go back to this moment with these same feelings. And this hymn comes to mind:

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

Refrain

On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

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His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.

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When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

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