He's So Faithful! And Thank You From The Bottom Of My Heart!

God is faithful! So faithful! Can I just give a shout out to how faithful he is! In my life I can look back already and see his hand. Lately it's just bam, bam, bam, been faithfulness, faithfulness, faithfulness. He has been faithful to me and helped me along even when I've made naive, or unwise decision. He doesn't condemn me. He doesn't leave me to figure it out my self. He's helping me right out of it. I'm still leaning on him strongly, and on the beautiful people he has placed in my life to help me along! I couldn't do life with out these people he has so faithfully blessed me with! Thank you to these blessings, Mr. Scott, Mrs. Tammie, Rebeca, David, for hosting me for a few months. For feeding me, loving me, laughing, with me crying with me, providing for all of my needs from a place to sleep in warmth down to eyeliner and toothpaste and everything in between. Mi-Mi and Paw-Paw for taking me in, feeding me, doing my laundry, letting me disrupt your schedule, and loving me always. Grandma and Pops for supporting me, praying for me, giving me wisdom, laughing with me and loving me. Mom and Dad, are there enough words? As I get older I realize what an incredible thing I have probably taken for granted way too often, you're encouragement, support, and wisdom mean the world to me! I love you more than you will ever know. Mrs. Patty thank you for speaking the words God gave you to me just when I was asking God what I should do. Thank you for always loving me and speaking words of life to me, I Love you so much. Aunt Vanessa thank you for being a blessing in my life. You sent me a text the other day that said "Lord Bless You With Joy!" Either I'm loopy or God answered that prayer directly. I can't say everything has been peaches and cream. Mi-Mi could tell you about my melt down the other day. But what I can say, is that despite trivial matters that seem so big in my head, I have such joy! And really all of my needs are met. The more I just trust him, I realize the uncertainty and tears are not so necessary. And sometimes I'm crying and saying "I trust you" and He's probably thinking, "So why is she sitting there crying like that." But that doesn't keep him from showering faithfulness on me. He's teaching me so much. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for following him and in so doing blessing me.(And I know many others!) I love you all! xoxo! Happy February my favorite month! When we are reminded that love and kindness are so very treasured and important!

Notable Moments

Last week I was standing in my parents book closet, searching for a book to read and Abby was sitting in a chair near me. She was kind of off in her own little world just thinking, and occasionally looking at me like I was crazy as I would randomly blurt things out to her while searching for a book. After a little while she said to me, "Hey, do you know that t.v. show called Heartland?" I told her I had heard of it. She said, "Well, it's kind of a horse show and about a girl. But anyway, I watched a lot of it in the past few weeks. Then last week Dad told me I wasn't allowed to watch it anymore, because He didn't like me being on the computer all the time and watching that show all the time. I thought I was going to die. All I wanted to do was watch that show. I was just going crazy that I couldn't watch it. It's all I would think about! But now it has been a week or two since Dad told me I wasn't allowed to watch it. And now it doesn't even bother me. I don't even think about it or care anymore, it's like I'm free!(She said that part in a silly, dramatic Abby kind of voice but non the less serious) then she said, "I'm really glad Dad made me stop watching it, because it was like I was addicted and now I'm free!" Now I've tried to think of a profound food for thought point to this story for you, but I can't seem to come up with it. It was just a moment, a little conversation that stuck out to me and has been on my mind. I think really it made me proud of my 13 year old little sister, that she realized she had been so caught up in something that really wasn't important or probably worth her time. And I was proud that she was grateful to her Dad for giving her boundaries (though she wasn't thrilled at the time) later recognized what a blessing it had been instead of just resenting his authority and she was thankful that he had intervened.

I Love this kid!