When it Rains, it pours .... like a Hurricane!

Chemo went fine Monday and I thought that this time around I was immune to the side effects.  I prayed I would be :D.   Tuesday was great.   Wednesday and Thursday were awful.   In fact, they are a blur.   I cannot believe two days have past that I was so ill.   In fact, I threatened not to go back.   Today I am queasy and tired, but not dying feeling.  Meanwhile, I awoke this morning to find out my husband's cabinet shop was broken into.   ONE.....MORE.......THING.......really?      His spray guns are gone and a box of tools.    They suspect they may be back for the big stuff.  I am so tired from the chemo but strangely enough, still encouraged.    Maybe it's the encouraging notes I get in the mail while still in the storm, the regular influx of meals, or even the big gift we got yesterday.   I am sure I didn't even seem very grateful.   I was so very sick.  Yesterday a sister in Christ delivered gloves, gauze, the shirts my children needed for camp, an outfit each for my two smallest, laundry detergent, dish washing detergent, dish washer detergent, and $40 towards tennis shoe for the boys.   The storm is raging.   The robbery felt like sneaky sideways hurricane winds.   But God....He is here.   And I am thankful. 

Psalm 103

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
    and all that is within me,
    bless his holy name!
²  Bless the Lord, O my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits,
³ who forgives all your iniquity,
    who heals all your diseases,
⁴ who redeems your life from the pit,
    who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
⁵ who satisfies you with good
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

⁶ The Lord works righteousness
    and justice for all who are oppressed.
⁷ He made known his ways to Moses,
    his acts to the people of Israel.
⁸ The Lord is merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
⁹  He will not always chide,
    nor will he keep his anger forever.
¹⁰ He does not deal with us according to our sins,
    nor repay us according to our iniquities.
¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
¹² as far as the east is from the west,
    so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
¹³ As a father shows compassion to his children,
    so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
¹⁴ For he knows our frame;
    he remembers that we are dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass;
    he flourishes like a flower of the field;
¹⁶ for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
    and its place knows it no more.
¹⁷ But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
    and his righteousness to children's children,
¹⁸ to those who keep his covenant
    and remember to do his commandments.
¹⁹ The Lord has established his throne in the heavens,
    and his kingdom rules over all.

²⁰ Bless the Lord, O you his angels,
    you mighty ones who do his word,
    obeying the voice of his word!
²¹ Bless the Lord, all his hosts,
    his ministers, who do his will!
²²  Bless the Lord, all his works,
    in all places of his dominion.
   Bless the Lord, O my soul!