Counting up some blessings....

August 20, 2009

Been a busy week around here, having lots of good summer fun still going on, as you could probably tell by my lack of posts! Just wanted to stop and count a couple blessings in our family this week...

Brad and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary last Saturday the 14th. I can't believe it's been ten years already! That Brad has been able to put up with me for ten whole years is all a God thing, I know for sure! We had a great dinner out together, thanks to our good friends for kidsitting, topped off with, I had to try one, a deep-fried Snickers bar, topped with chocolate sauce and whipped cream. Whoa... waaay good, but I am sure you can't have too many if you want to make it to your twentieth anniversary without severely clogged arteries and a good case of diabetes.

After we got home from our dinner out, we came home to a message on our machine saying my sister-in-law was at the hospital ready to deliver her baby! What a surprise!! She wasn't due till October. She was suspicious of the baby's lack of movement, and voiced her concerns to her doctors. They performed a few tests over a couple days, and decided that the safest course of action was to deliver the baby. So, on August 15 (New Zealand time), Theo was born, eight weeks early and a whopping 5lbs 3 oz!! I'm an Auntie! :) Turns out, Theo was exposed to listeria, and had bacterial meningitis, which may have been fatal if he hadn't been delivered right then. He and Mommy are doing well. Yay God again! :)

We had a day and a half of rain last week too, which I am listing as a blessing, even though everyone on my facebook and elsewhere doomed it as the end of our glorious summer. We've resumed our beautifully warm weather this week, it's not over just yet. We needed our rain badly, and I think it serves as a simple example that sometimes we don't see God's hand and His purpose in the things we're given. But, God gives us things in a different way than we think He should.

Anyways, that's what's going on here... all polkadotted and wonderfully good. I am so thankful.... God is good all the time!

Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
Sing praises to His name, for it is lovely. Psalm 135: 3

Confidential to my friend, returning your email very belatedly: I am so glad that you are sensing God calling you. He is, you know. I think it's exciting! I know what you mean by you being scared about losing yourself and feeling you'd be hiding behind religion. For me, "losing" myself was the best thing that happened to me, and was when I really found myself and began knowing really who I am. And my advice is, don't hide behind religion. That would be a scary thing. Don't follow a religion, follow God... there's a HUGE difference! Keep me posted!