We face this every day in our home. It's a weird thing. All we want is to move on, move forward with our life. But we don't want to forget. God did too much to forget. And so we try to remember.
We have made a new family tradition! The Friday before Thanksgiving the Lord heard the prayers of thousands. We were begging God to save David's life. He did.
Faith Friday! This is a real day of Thanksgiving in our home, to be celebrated with the family and friends that walked this journey with us.
We ask ourselves: "How will our kids know all that God did?!" We are hoping that this is a small piece. Every year we will look back and remember that miraculous night.
Who would have thought we would STANDING together and that I would be 31 weeks pregnant!!
Thankful for Daddy :)
We read aloud the devotional that David and I had read that Friday of 2009. We are continually amazed at the ways the Lord carried us through. We are so grateful that these words were in our hearts that desperate night.
"Emotions are one of the least reliable yet influential forces in our lives. One day, we are hopeful; the next, we hate. Despair at one time; delight, the other. Emotions are the surging, restless tides that keep ebbing and flowing, drawing us up, then pushing us down.
The Psalms are a gyroscope, keeping moving things level, like a ship held steady in turbulent seas. This is why the Psalms often repeat the admonition to "remember the wonder he has done, his miracles and the judgements he pronounced" (Psalm 105:5). My friend used to say, "Never doubt in the darkness what you once believed in the light." When hardship settles in, dark and brooding emotions can surge over us in a tide of doubt and fear. The only sure dike against a flood of glum feelings is to remember. We must recall sunnier times when we drove the pilings of God's goodness deep in our hearts..."
Excerpt from Joni Eareckson Tada "Pearls of Great Price".
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