Well, Robert starts seminary, Jasper, Hulk, and Wild Man celebrate their birthdays, and we have our 13th anniversary in less than a month! That is a busy month. I have been thinking a lot about contentment. About God's sovereignty and how my discontentment is a distrust in His plan for our lives. For instance, I'm lonely. We had some friends stop in during a move in early June but other than that we haven't seen good friends in a while. And when you have a family our size phone calls don't happen often, not really good phone calls anyway. For some reason, the Lord has seen fit to cave in any of the opportunities we have had to get to see beloved friends or family anytime soon. We will celebrate Hulk's special 1st birthday by ourselves and I'm frantically attending church play dates to try and scrounge up some friends for Wild Man to invite for his 4th birthday. Boo hoo, poor us. These are such silly, stupid, temporary things to get weepy over but I'm in my third trimester, so give me some grace okay?! I miss friends and family. We will make friends here. We have found a church that we are going to join and the people at this church are quite possibly the most friendly and wonderful people we've ever encountered in a church! So it shouldn't be long. I'm just being discontent with the life dealt me for now. Shame on me. Because...
We are so blessed. We have a beautiful home to live in. I'm married to a man who loves the Lord and puts His will above all else. On days that I feel paralyzed by the trials of parenthood I'm reminded that my older children don't throw temper tantrums anymore, so these younger ones WILL obey one day if I don't grow weary of doing good by raising them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.....right? We took a day trip to Cincinnati the other day and went to the Creation Museum! So cool!! We also went by Ikea which is Robert's new love. ; ) This new baby is growing and moving and healthy and we are so humbled by the blessing of adding another family member! Most of all, we have salvation through Jesus! If we had nothing but that we would have the highest blessing available, so undeserved! What am I to do with all these blessings and free gifts?! I know! I'll complain and be discontented. *sarcasm* Lord, forgive me. You are enough. Here are some pictures of just some of the stuff we have to be thankful for:
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Christi
7/23/2015 12:23:06 pm
Thank you for this reminder. I certainly needed it tonight, that is a tactic Satan had been using on me this week and it is great to be reminded that I must lean in and trust the father knows best. I love you and in my commute (which becomes my prayer time ) I'll spend time praying for you tomorrow versus asking why our why not. I love you dear friend and even though distance and time had kept is apart I'm always thankful for you and how your words push me towards the cross.
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