It seems mildly cliche to post on being thankful on Thanksgiving day, but I'm sitting in my family room with my family and browsing through YouTube and Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up" just popped up. The song makes the hair on my arms stand up within the first couple of notes:
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up: To more than I can be.
These words are so familiar, but powerful all the same. How often we walk through life feeling soul weary, feeling burdened. Skipping over the waiting in silence and going straight to focusing on the stormy seas comes so naturally. Still, our Heavenly Father is waiting all the while. Waiting to raise us up. Waiting to make us more than we can be on our own. In dark seasons of our lives it's so incredibly easy to miss this beautiful truth. We have a Savior who waits upon us. How paradoxical? After a few months of navigating one of the worst storms of my life, I've finally begun to see how the Lord has been raising me up even amidst the storm. So today I'm thankful for having a God, a God who I worship, a God who created the very world I live in every day, who loves me enough to wait upon me.
"Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him..." Psalm 37:7a
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