Blessed. When do you feel most blessed? Is it when things are going just right? When life is going just the way you planned it? When you can’t imagine life any other way? I have thought a lot about what being blessed means over the past 2 months. Dan and I have realized that much…
REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS; I WILL SAY IT AGAIN: REJOICE – Philippians 4:4 This is a verse that keeps popping up in my head and even when I reading something – not that I find that to be a coincidence. God is not coincidental. He knows that His words will help us find peace. Yesterday was a…
August 23 – JESUS CALLING Entrust your loved ones to me; release them into My protective care. They are much safer with Me than in your clinging hands. If you let a loved one become an idol in your heart, you endanger that one – as well as yourself. Remember the extreme measures I used…
This week is the WEEK! I can’t believe the time has come. Last October when we were talking about when to start, we were all so bummed that we had to wait until the summer; especially the end of the summer. Now we have finally arrived on retrieval and transfer week! Docs are thinking that…
Everything happens for a reason. That is such a cliche saying, yet isn’t it so true? In my Christian faith, the sovereignty of God, I hold onto very passionately and humbly. To know that God is the holder of all things, the Creator of all things, and the knower of all things, is mind-boggling at…
Though this week has been tough, I would repeat it, just to learn the lessons again. I think of the verses in James 1 that say “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that…
