like a tree

I was so moved and humbled by these words of a much-missed friend's email today. It's pure God-centred gutsiness I tell you:

"maybe God is hindering things from happening because it's not the
most glorifying to Him... maybe He has greater miracles in store...or
maybe this is just something He wants us to go through with no
apparent redeeming qualities."

The honest, earnest faith of this family in the midst of an overseas relocation and bewildering circumstances makes me so proud to be called their friends, and so aware of our dependence on God's grace and mercy for them.

They are helping us understand what it means to be like this:

"But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in him.

He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit."
~Jeremiah 17:7-8