Blessed be Your 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

...

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

I have a hard time with this. It is just a little ditty that I first knew from the Newsboys and Matt Redman, but we do it often in worship, and every time it seems difficult. I can't help but put myself into the song, but is it a little too close for comfort.

At this time it seems the sun is shining down on us. We are blessed with health, prosperity, and some some stability. And God be praised, and blessed be His Name. But the road has been marked with suffering. I still feel it, and know the possibilities are ever with us. But blessed be His name in all of it.

Ian had his chemo today and everyone is doing very well. Caleb and Ian had a terrific game on Monday. Caleb went 2 for 2 with what should have been an easy triple and a couple of good plays in the field, and Ian went 1 for 1 with a strong single. I asked Ian how the chemo went today, and what he really was excited to talk about was how he got 2 bags potato chips for the 1 dollar he put into the machine. It is the little things in life. All in all things things are good, and God be praised.