pain. and joy.

As I write this, I'm in incredible amounts of pain.

My muscles hurt, my bruise hurts, I'm tense, I'm tired, I'm sore.I literally do just feel like going back to bed and pretending today never happened.But, one thing is keeping me going. It's not the promise of my new job (which I am starting today, regardless of how I feel.). It's not the promise that I get to go to another dance practice tonight and be thrown around like a rag doll and end up with even more bruises tomorrow (even though it is actually usually fun). It's not the fact that I had the best, 4 hour conversation with a random friend last night and he kept me up until 1 a.m. (even though he saw me when I was about to go to bed and still thought I was pretty)!

It's the promise of Isaiah 40:28-31.

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

I'm not the only one who has felt weary, or felt like I've stumbled and fallen. I hope in the LORD - He is why I'm still standing today.

His strength will get me through....and for that, the glory is all His.