Chords for Kim Hopper -Testimony about Lexi and Peace in the Midst of the Storm

_ [Ab] We know that that's not for the hoppers, but that's for what God has done.
_ I was actually carrying [Eb] Lexi during that time when we got to go to Israel and sing that inside the city walls.
[G] _
The doctor really didn't want me to go, but I knew that there [C] was something so special there.
I hadn't been at [G] that time in ten years.
And I knew that I just needed to be renewed on the [F] promises of God and see His handiwork.
[G] We went there and got there safe and got home safe.
And then a few [C] weeks later I figured out why I had such a longing to go.
I [G] got a call on a Sunday night.
It was my mom.
_ [F]
As soon as Dean answered the phone and stood up and hung it up and [C] looked at me, I knew.
[G] I said, My daddy's gone, isn't he?
They said, Yes.
_ [G] _ _ Paramedics worked on him for a long time, but they [C] never got anything.
_ I said, God, that's why I wanted to go, [F] isn't it?
To be reminded that my [A] dad's now resting on the banks of that river [Em] and running where angels have trod.
And it was [Dm] special to me because my dad's there tonight.
[Em]
And then [C] about six weeks after that, I went into [A] premature labor.
I got to the hospital that [G] night and the doctors told us about all the things that [F] could be wrong.
[C] As Dean told you, Lexi [Em] came into the world.
She was [G] perfect, just little, but she was [G] perfect.
She just had trouble eating.
And so for seven weeks we sat in the hospital with her [F]
as she [C] learned to eat.
[D] Nothing I could do.
I had to just sit and wait on her to learn that reflex on her own.
It got real [Dm] frustrating.
I sat there one night and I was praying, holding [C] her, and I said, God, _ _ _ [A] I've been through a lot this year. _
I've got an older brother that's battled an illness for five years, and now [F] tonight he's doing wonderful.
But [G] at that point, he was back in the hospital in Dallas [D] and was there a couple months.
[G] My baby [C] brother's expecting to have a kidney transplant in the [G] next year.
_ _ Lost my daddy, and now here I am [D] with this little baby [F] in this hospital.
I said, God, what are you trying to tell me?
_ [C] What is it that you want me to learn from this?
_ It wasn't long after I prayed that prayer until this little nurse walked over and she said, I know who you are.
We talked for a little bit about our ministry.
_ I told her about a solo project [C] that I had out and that I would [G] bring her a copy the next day, and I did.
[F] A couple days later, there was another nurse that came by and said, I heard about your solo project.
Do you [G] think I could get a copy?
I said, yes.
[C]
The [B] next day, there was another nurse, and this [Dm] went on [F] for several days.
_ [G] So I passed them out.
One [Am] day I came back in, and [B] that first little nurse looked at me and she said, I want to talk [D] to you.
I said, okay.
So we sat [Dm] down, and she said, we've been playing your [G] CD a lot when you're not here.
She said, the nurses _ _ and the moms, [C] it sort of calms their [G] fears and quietens the little ones here, soothes their little hearts.
_ She said, it's really meant a lot [A] to us.
She said, my mother is dying with cancer, and [Fm] I've been setting up nights [Em] with her when I'm not [G] working.
[G] I've been listening to that project a whole [F] lot.
She said, there's one [C] particular song that means a whole lot to me.
[Dm] It talks about having peace in the midst of the storms.
[G] _ I started to look around, [C] and I saw all these little babies that were in such terrible shape.
_ Little Grace [D] weighed a couple pounds and has two siblings in heaven already, lost a premature birth.
_ [G] Back there was little [D] Jalen, and he was about three pounds, [G] had a lot wrong with him.
His mom [F] was a 16-year-old [C] unwed mother.
_ I [F] thought about what maybe those songs could be meaning to them.
_ Then she looked at me, and I'll never forget it.
[G] She said, you may be wondering and questioning [A] why you're here right now.
_ [C] She said, I'm sure this is a place that you don't [G] want to be.
_ [C] She said, this was exactly God's divine plan because we needed you right now.
_ _ She said, I needed you, and I needed these songs to bring me through this situation.
_ [C] _
_ She said, all these little [G] moms that are here, a lot of them are hearing about the peace [Dm] of God and the hope that He gives for the very first time.
[D] _
_ You know what, I had to say, [C] God, I get it.
Thank you.
I know now why I'm here.
_ [Em] You know what, you may be in a place tonight that you don't want to be.
Could [Dm] be physically, spiritually, financially, whatever the case may [Em] be.
But let me tell you tonight, I assure you, it [C] did not take Him by surprise.
[F] [G] He knew all about it before it ever happened.
He put you there for a reason.
He will use you for that reason, and He will bring you [C] out.
And He will also give you His peace to go through it.
[Bb] This is the little song that [Cm] sort of became the theme _ [Bb] around that ICU for babies.
And it