We got back from our trip at 4pm today. Unloaded the van, put away a lot of things, but not all. Then we ran through Arby's and went to the local Christmas parade at 5:30. Which was FREEZING! We left right after with both girls running because they were scared another moment out in the weather and their toes would break off! Loaded kids back into the van, chairs, double jogging stroller and then realized I couldn't find my cellphone. Wandered around the van looking for several minutes and finally walked back up the sidewalk and found it a ways back (praise God, even though it's in a black case). We still need to go grocery shopping and finish unpacking. It's times like these that I sit back and praise God for carrying us through another day and want to pull my hair out at the people that tell me I "make it look easy". Forget how it looks from the outside and HELP ME!!! Ha! Truly though.
We are pressed but not crushed, by the grace of God. And this month will be tough because next Saturday is the double birthday party and then Christmas all without Daddy present. Been a little more emotional today. Counting my blessings this Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for all the hardships that weaken me so that I will lean on Him who is more strong. I'm thankful for a deployment that leaves me running to the cross to remind myself that my security is in Christ's atonement for me and not in how well I do everything else. Thankful for when I snap at the kids and the Lord uses it to convict me and draw me to repentance. Thankful for a calling to homeschool even though I would not choose it because there is no doubt that it's from selfish ambition. Thankful for a loving God who loved us so much that He took our son Home early so that He could sanctify us in a new way. Thankful for a sleepless baby boy who struggles with unknown food allergies because it is a constant reminder that HIS grace is sufficient. And I will be His annoying daughter that keeps asking for help. This too shall pass but meanwhile I will be thankful for the trials because my God is so great that He uses even the bad. After things simmer down I will get back into posting more. : ) GOD BLESS!! He is so good!! But meanwhile, this... this... this... this: http://www.thevillagechurch.net/the-village-blog/erasing-anxiety/
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