One Step At A Time...

I posted this as a comment on post about if a child is born with special needs, should we be praying for their healing. These are my thoughts on it. Just maybe God has an amazing purpose for your child’s life and needs, maybe that purpose is to change you. We are each fearfully and wonderfully made, handcrafted by God. I believe that God does not make mistakes. We are born to be what He created, not what we think we should be.    “ For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭139:13-14‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “ My son was born with a spinal cord issue. He was born with a purpose: he pointed me to Christ because I was heading straight out of my faith and the church doors. I didn’t have a choice to cry out to Jesus to heal my broken heart. God allowed my son to be born with a tethered spinal cord to teach us to rely on Him. My son has surgery but sti

We started homeschooling this year. It has been an adventure and humbling experience so far. For myself and them. Watching them grasp new concepts and find new passions has been amazing. Watching them struggle with difficult tasks has been heartbreaking. Everyday is roller coaster  of emotions, highs and lows, failures and triumphs. Overall, I love the extra time we have with our kids. Because they do not have to get up so early, they can to stay up later with my husband which has lead to spontaneous movie nights, gaming evenings and more time for just hanging out together. My kids’ anxiety has subsided, sleep has improved and they are overall happier! We are learn to balance it all and some days I fail but we are learning how to do this together. Together, that is how we all want to be.

Bad attitudes. Do I have one when ask to help serve my family, my church, my community? Do I grumble and complain because I think my God given talents and gifts are better used elsewhere? Do I get an attitude with those that I am working with because things are not my way? Do you? I have been studying the book of Nehemiah with my mom's ladies group at her church and this verse keeps coming back to me from Nehemiah 3 where Nehemiah talks about the beginnings of rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. He is talking about how each person did their job, fixing what was in fixing of them, how they all worked together, despite of job, job title, and class. All except the nobles of Tekoa.  "5 The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa, but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors." Even in the days of the Old Testament, there was always someone who thought they were too good to do hard work. They had bad attitudes about what the

I have been struggling internally over issues beyond my control. Allowing others' drama bring me down. I have moments when I just want to scream at those people to let it go (cue Frozen soundtrack in your head), or stop creating drama in your life, or that is time to move from issues in their past, to fully give those issues to God like they said they have and stop picking them up after they say a prayer for Him to help them, plus so many other thoughts. Unfortunately, I am not eloquent with speaking words aloud and end up being blunt and to the point, which can cause hurt to that person. Instead, I keep all of this thoughts in my head and simply pray Psalms 141:3 and Luke 22:49 over and over. I know these issues are beyond anything that I can do. The best thing for me to do is to pray for them. Simply put. I cannot change anything, any person, but myself. I can only even do that with the help of Jesus.

I am a slacker. I have been knitting like crazy and blogging took a back seat again. It is not hard to tell where my priorities and true passions are! To be honest, I have never confessed to be a blogger so I am good in my slacking. Life is still crazy but the hard parts seem to have calmed down. My father in law has entered remission from cancer, my Nan suffered a heart attack but is recovering, Jeriah's pain has seemed to calm down. We are getting ready for Christmas slowly. Lots of shopping left to do.  My oldest is playing hockey, middle is playing basketball, the youngest is seeing how much he can age me in a small amount of time! Overall, we are doing good and keeping busy!

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