Sing Into Your Storm ~ Overcoming Adversity Through High Praise

God gave me the desire of my heart. Wow! Words cannot express my gratitude to God! A couple of days before her death, an angel had appeared at the end of her crib. I knew later why… Betty Johnson We chose to ( forced might be a better word ) ourselves to worship the Lord in the darkest hour of our lives. It was clear to us having received the word twice about what King David did in the loss of his child. In so doing, the Lord decided to bless us beyond anything we could have ever expected or imagined. We broke through the wall of despair through lamentation worship into an incredible place before the Lord, a place where the Lord was so moved by our determination to worship Him in lamentation that He did a wondrous thing! The kindness of the Lord to allow my wife to hold her child one last time (knowing that in the months and years to come, how much her arms would ache to hold her). This experience in God opened up an understanding of a facet of God’s Love and Compassion that was beyond anything we have ever known about Him! In lamentation worship, we lift up our pain and sorrow unto God, the One who is so well acquainted with all of our griefs and sorrows. In the loss of Rachel Ann-Marie, the question of “Why God?” continually tried to dominant our minds and our hearts. We could have spent all of our energy focusing on that question alone… The one thing we were truly able to determine in the midst of this great tragedy was that “Though we may never understand God’s reasoning for not raising her back up to life,

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