April 27: Gerhardt has been questioned, confessed his faith publicly and will be confirmed next Sunday. God is good!
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Making Much
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
March 28: “Make much of something small.” from Bounty by Robyn Sarah
I’m a chronic collector of small moments. Moments someone else might not notice or care about. I have a habit of marking them and making much of them. They’re the memories I dig up when I think back on ‘the days when they were little.’ When these days have a way of only feeling like explosion after explosion of tempers, attitudes, fits, fights and nonstop messes I will need to be reminded that there were small moments like this one when a big kid taught a little kid how to shred cheese and only Mama noticed.
Giving Thanks
Monday, December 13th, 2021
November 25: So much has changed in just a year since last Thanksgiving. It’s been a long hard year. I’m sad to remember that last year on Thanksgiving day we announced to the kids that we were having another baby, they were so excited. We learned a few days later that our baby was no longer alive. Very soon after God gave us our dear Rose and we began a journey we could never have prepared for.
I have an overwhelming amount of things for which to be thankful. In the exhaustion of the day to day its been a struggle for me to remember that, to take all the gifts for granted, to even fall into a huge pity party.
Yet, though I do not deserve it, in those times God continues to bless me in countless ways, to give richly and to forgive. I am a beggar at the door of His continuous mercy.
I have no idea who placed those flowers on the graves of my babies, but that’s just one more thing I’m thankful for, their kind gesture. One more little gift from a loving God.
