Years ago when the "sh!! happens" bumper stickers started popping up all over the place, I became convinced that NOTHING is wasted in God's economy... even sh!! is used for fertilization... and eventually makes good ground for growing.
I wanted to market "Fertilizer Happens" bumper stickers. Still do!
Hubby and I were anxiously anticipating how "the holidays" would go... our first year "alone" and...
...we're having fun... which is awesome!!!
We do have micromoments of sadness for the choices our RADs continue to make... but we don't get to make their choices, they do... we are responsible for keeping our hearts tender and forgiving through it all... which at some moments is easier said than done... but well worth the efforts.
Here we are our 4th "Holiday Season" since RADs melted down. 4th holiday season of estrangement from them by their choice. We can see so very much more clearly how God is using the "fertilizer" to grow us in His love and to bless us with friendships so much deeper than the "fair weather friend" variety.
This morning (New Year's Eve) as I'm counting my so many blessings, I'm blown away how God has used horrific circumstances to abundantly bless us!!!
I was remembering the story of Corrie Ten Boom being in Nazi concentration camps thanking God for infested unlivable conditions, and later seeing exactly how the unlivable conditions she had thanked God for was being used to bless them. <= Read it if you have time... get tissues.
All my "horrible moments" combined don't compare to what Corrie and her sister encountered in that passage alone. Their God inspired hope in the midst of hopeless circumstances have certainly inspired me and countless others.
One nickname I have (from high school referring to a traumatic head injury) helps me to remember that it continues to be my prayer to praise God in ALL circumstances... because He is worthy. When that nicknaming injury happened I literally fell down (from the weight of the blow) praising God. I was a relatively "new" believer back then... and I continue to earnestly pray "Lord, WHATEVER happens, help me to be confident in Your promises that You love me, You intend to bless me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper, even what an enemy intends for my harm You will use to bless me... Lord, help me in the midst of traumas that knock me off my feet to fall down praising you!"
What a gift it is to be confident in God's love for me!!!!
If you are not YET confident that God loves you... my prayer is that as you read this, your heart would get a glimmer of the TREMENDOUS love the God of all has for you personally!!!!
I wanted to market "Fertilizer Happens" bumper stickers. Still do!
Hubby and I were anxiously anticipating how "the holidays" would go... our first year "alone" and...
...we're having fun... which is awesome!!!
We do have micromoments of sadness for the choices our RADs continue to make... but we don't get to make their choices, they do... we are responsible for keeping our hearts tender and forgiving through it all... which at some moments is easier said than done... but well worth the efforts.
Here we are our 4th "Holiday Season" since RADs melted down. 4th holiday season of estrangement from them by their choice. We can see so very much more clearly how God is using the "fertilizer" to grow us in His love and to bless us with friendships so much deeper than the "fair weather friend" variety.
This morning (New Year's Eve) as I'm counting my so many blessings, I'm blown away how God has used horrific circumstances to abundantly bless us!!!
I was remembering the story of Corrie Ten Boom being in Nazi concentration camps thanking God for infested unlivable conditions, and later seeing exactly how the unlivable conditions she had thanked God for was being used to bless them. <= Read it if you have time... get tissues.
All my "horrible moments" combined don't compare to what Corrie and her sister encountered in that passage alone. Their God inspired hope in the midst of hopeless circumstances have certainly inspired me and countless others.
One nickname I have (from high school referring to a traumatic head injury) helps me to remember that it continues to be my prayer to praise God in ALL circumstances... because He is worthy. When that nicknaming injury happened I literally fell down (from the weight of the blow) praising God. I was a relatively "new" believer back then... and I continue to earnestly pray "Lord, WHATEVER happens, help me to be confident in Your promises that You love me, You intend to bless me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper, even what an enemy intends for my harm You will use to bless me... Lord, help me in the midst of traumas that knock me off my feet to fall down praising you!"
What a gift it is to be confident in God's love for me!!!!
If you are not YET confident that God loves you... my prayer is that as you read this, your heart would get a glimmer of the TREMENDOUS love the God of all has for you personally!!!!
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