Giving thanks

We were blessed to be able to share in song in both services at our church yesterday. We had been asked to sing last month, before the baby excitement happened. We had originally picked a song and one of the pastors just wasn't feeling it for that week and asked if we could pick something that fit with Thanksgiving. So we wound up choosing "Thank You, Lord" by Hillsongs instead. It's a praise and worship chorus, and the entire song is just thanking God for all that's He's done and is going to do. It was definitely much more fitting and I really think God wanted us to be singing that instead of our original choice. When he asked for a song of thanksgiving, neither he nor us knew what was about to happen in our lives. When we got word that our baby had been born we thought it would be wonderful because we were going to sing a song of thanks on Sunday and then pick up our baby on Monday (today). It was perfect! Then we found out that she wasn't going to be our baby after all. And you know what? The song was still perfect. God is worthy of our praise no matter what we go through. He hasn't brought our daugther to us just yet, but He has done so many other wonderful things in our lives and we are thankful for those things. And we are thankful that He will be bringing us a daughter, in His perfect timing. After our sound check yesterday morning, the pastor asked us if he could share with the church what had just happened in our lives and we said he could. He wanted them to know the place we were coming from as we sang this song. I had to really hold it together as he shared or I wouldn't have been able to sing, but I am a firm believer in sharing what God is doing in your life. God uses openness like that to minister to others and I have no idea who was in the congregation that day that really needed to hear it. I pray it ministered to people, especially those who may be going through something difficult right now. He shared and then prayed for both us and the offering, as we were going to sing while they collected that. I was truly blessed by what he shared and by the church joining together to pray for us. I went into this praying for God to minister to those who heard the song and for God to be blessed by our praise, but God surprised me by blessing us as well. He's cool like that.