My Shepherd

I have been reading the book, "The Lord is my Shepherd" by Elizabeth George. She says that when she is in the "falling-apart" stage of a trial her husband will remind her, "everything will be okay." He doesn't tell her when, or how, or who, or what...just that everything will be okay. She was comparing this to our Good Shepherd--God the Father. It reminded me of something my husband said to me several years ago. We were really having some struggles in our marriage. I remember it just felt like we just weren't communicating with each other. It felt like a constant friction. Never on the same page. One morning my husband had left for work kind of upset with me and I at him. I just cried and cried that day. I prayed and asked the Lord to bring comfort to my heart. That evening when Paul got home he asked me to come into our room. He sat down with me and gently said, "everything will be alright, we will get through this." Those were probably the most reassuring words he had ever said to me. Those words have stuck with me like glue. I don't believe he has ever said that to me again, but I have heard those words in my head so many times since then. Somehow it is comforting to know that everything will be okay and we will get through, no matter what.
Isn't it interesting how comforting that is to know? It's not even about knowing the how's or what the fors...just that everything will be okay.
Since then I have spoken those words to different friends who needed comfort. Even to my kids. And each time they have looked up at me and looked so reassured and comforted.
I like the words of this passage in I Corinthians 1:


2Co 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
2Co 1:4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
2Co 1:5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
2Co 1:6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
2Co 1:7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

Di