One Day At a Time

Life's journey is all about phases.

The Swallow is not exempted...
- as a student struggling to learn the Malay language when only English was widely used at home.
- as a new Christian teenager dealing with growing pains.
- as a young adult entering the workforce away from her family and native country.
- as an adult finding love without compromising herself and her beliefs.
- as a new wife seeking intimacy with her mate, and seeking to grow together in their joint walk with her Lord and her God.
- as a young mother bringing up her young ones with her mate, seeking godly ways of parenting from the Word of God and from like-minded parents.

Growing older, there will be new phases in her life...
- mid-life.
- dealing with 'letting go' of her young ones.
- coping with a near-empty nest.
- deteriorating health.
- loss of family and friends.

The Lord God had always been a source of strength for the Swallow.  When the going was tough.  When the days were days of "just coping".  When all she could do was cry out her frustrations to her Lord.  When the sinful self reared its ugly head, demanding that its needs be met.  Asked by one of her readers to explain the gaps in her blog posts, the Swallow could only say, "These were the days of struggle."  Yet, the Lord God saw her through, one day at a time.  He was faithful, though she was faithless at times.

Isaiah 40 : 28 - 31 (NKJV)
Have you not known?  Have you not heard?  The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary, His understanding is unsearchable.  He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.  Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Going into the new phases in her life, she will continue to trust in her Lord, the One who is neither faints nor is weary.  He was faithful, and He will remain faithful.  Great is His faithfulness!