Rejoice

Aaaaaaah GOD IS SO GOOD!!!

Let me just say briefly, because I'm taking a mini break from the internet (during which I paint cabinets and doors and bake bread and read LOTS of books to my kids and rearrange the living room and organize my sewing supplies and catch up on laundry and play dress up and watch movies with my husband and catch up with old friends and train the puppy and upload photographs and do all of those other things that kind of get forgotten when I get too sucked into hanging out with my imaginary friends ;) that my prayers AND YOURS for me (!) are working.

Pretty much everything I have prayed so hard about the past couple of months has just suddenly come together. Remember my swaff post a while back (when I was feeling more articulate than right now)? That's exactly how I feel right now.

And because I need to get back to organizing my fabrics, and some things are kind of private, let me just share one of many things that I would like to praise God for tonight...

I posted a while back that there were some delays with our becoming foster parents - basically schedules clashed, so that we could not attend the mandatory training (which is two full weekends) until September, which means we won't be licensed until sometime at the end of this year. BUT in the meantime, a baby girl in foster care is hospitalized at our children's hospital. Her foster parents live far away and have other children, so I am going to spend a few nights at the hospital keeping this sweet baby company and watching over her for them. I can't even express how FULL my heart is that I have the honor of doing this!

Thank you for praying for me - I love you all my imaginary (and real) friends ♥ Thank you especially Lynnette for coming up with this idea, because it is a great idea. I feel truly honored to pray for my friends - and if you have any prayer requests for me, please go here... the offer stands forever.

I started this blog to show how awesome God has been to me, and to help me remember to be thankful and rejoice in the Lord always. But a while back, I took a break from blogging because I did not feel thankful...and even since then, as I've come to terms with not having any more biological children and grieving the two babies I lost last year, I have struggled with feeling less than thankful at times.

But slowly God has worked in my heart, and I am truly beginning to feel gratitude for this past year. This is the first time in my life that my faith has really been shaken, I've felt some depths of sadness I hadn't felt before, and I am starting to see the END RESULT of that - a much deeper passion for and relationship with the Lord. In seeking "answers" I found myself really just seeking Him - and finding Him in an amazing new way. I've realized that it's not the answers I need or want... seeing His faithfulness and learning to truly trust Him, whether I know or understand what's going on or not, has been way better than getting "answers."

I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
And you shall know the LORD.
Hosea 2:20

(that wasn't so brief was it?)