“I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.” Elisabeth Elliot I read…
Last week I wrote a blog post about “Uncluttered Circumstances”. Little did I know that it was the message my heart needed to hear just a few short days later. We would love a life without difficult circumstances because they seem to cloud the vision of where God is leading us, but in all reality,…
Do you desire to live a clutter-free life? I’m not talking about with material things necessarily, though I do enjoy a life lived with fewer things, but a clutter-free mind of difficult circumstances? That’s hard. Do you struggle with that too? Sometimes I find myself fantasizing what that would look like, but when I solely…
Summer is HERE! We are so grateful to get to this point in the year after what the beginning of the year brought. We were looking very forward to spending time together as a family this summer and we are already making many memories! We started off summer with a family vacation at a cottage…
Last day of school! Many emotions encompass this day, for the both of us. The picture on the left is the first day of school and little did we know at the time, I was walking with leukemia. It was about 3 weeks later, I went into a heart procedure, thinking I’d only be taking…
You know those plastic balls or eggs that have surprises in them? Our daughter LOVES them. The anticipation and suspense, not knowing exactly what’s going to be in there, is what gets her every time. And when she finally opens it? So much excitement, wows, ahs, and “Look at this, Mom” moments. Sometimes I have…
