Sometimes the best conversations happen in the kitchen.

I always love getting to spend time with family. I always love getting to spend time with my cousin, Jana, too. She is a great role model, steadfast in her faith in the Lord, and has THE sweetest heart I've ever known.

Last night, in her mom's kitchen, she shared this verse with me. I've read it before, but never thought about applying it to MY life when I read it. I love it. I believe it.

Psalm 13
"How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Consider and hear me, O Lord, my God: lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him, and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved."

(Here's where it gets good....)

"But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me."

Good, huh??

I will sing unto the Lord because He knows my heart. I will sing unto the Lord because as bad as things sometimes seem, they are not as bad as they could be. I will sing unto the Lord because I have people in my life, like Jana, that have all the reasons in the world to focus on their own heartbreaks and troubles, but instead pray for me, think of me, and share these types of "talks in the kitchen" with me.

I will sing, sing, sing...