What Matters Most

I turn to Ps.119 over and overas sorrows, like sea billows roll... Ps.119:27-28Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.My soul melteth for heaviness:strengthen thou me according unto thy word. This past weekend we received word of tragedy after tragedy on our highways!Close to home three girls (ages 14, 6 & 4) have lost their parents(my daughter's neighbour's/friends)The school my brother teaches at lost a student in another accident.A man from our church family lost his sister and her husband in yet another accident.(and these tragedies mentioned are only the ones with personal ties. There were more!!)Please lift the community up in prayer (esp. the orphaned children!)And those on the other side of each of these accidents where another whole community of families and loved ones sufferbecause life as they knew it has been shattered!! This is the second neighbour/friend my daughter has lost suddenlya little over a month apart!Please pray for Emily and her husband Rob, as they continue to support the other family as well! Oh, how harsh seem the various trials we encounteryet without them how would our faith mature/grow?! Consider it pure joy, my brothers,when you encounter trials of many kinds,because you know that the testing of your faithdevelops perseverance.Allow perseverance to finish its work,so that you may be mature and complete,not lacking anything. Oh Lord, we cannot know Thy thoughtsThe way Thy mercies moveAre through the trials life allotsThy faithfulness to prove Oh Lord, we cannot comprehendThy plans Thy love empow'rsAs high as heavens o'er earth ascendAre Thy ways above ours Oh Lord, without faith and hope triedWe would grow proud and boastThen miss what matters most Oh Lord, restore our hearts to TheeTo trust Thy perfect willThrough Thy Word let our comfort beThe power/precepts You instill Janet 💔🙏 We sang the song It Is Well With My Soul at my sister's funeral a little over a year ago...(When it is well with our souls, what matters most is well!Hallelujah!)