Sunday, May 30, 2010

forgotten fruit



we celebrated nine years of marriage last week...

we met in a hospital room...ten months later we were married.
i had been visiting a friend, said my goodbyes and left the room.
but i forgot the bag of cantelope my friend had given me and returned to the room.
i was grabbing the bag when dan walked in.
i went back for some fruit, ended up with a husband!

we've lived in four different cities, ten different homes, scrapped our way through five years of medical school/research and three years of residency(two more to go!) all while enjoying the loud lives of four amazing children.



we have argued, laughed, screamed, cried, failed and succeeded way more than either of us ever thought we would, or could!

God has used us to make each other more holy, more patient, more forgiving, and way more loving.



each moment has been way "more" than i ever thought it would be...
and totally worth it!

thank you dan, for your daily submission to His will for our lives..."out of reverence for Christ"

i love you babe and i would say yes again...even though

Sunday, May 16, 2010

the meaning of a mess

"spouses are like mirrors, reflecting back to us all of our sinful flaws...children are like magnifying glasses, intensifying every detail of our lives."

this is my mess, my rich blessing from my LORD

my daily reminder of His compassionate, deep, and profound love for me

so deeply am i loved by my God, that He fills my days with opportunities to make beds, fix toys, read books, dress dolls, clean toilets, fold clothes, wipe bums, correct mistakes, listen calmly, love more, laugh lots, cry often, hear completely, wait for a really long time, tie shoes, help untie shoes, kiss owies, forgive as i have been forgiven, and mop up messes as "unto the Lord"

Miguel


Elia


Samuel


Selah


this is my sweet MESS

Monday, May 3, 2010

ineluctable

God's love is unending...ever pursuing...never failing...insatiable...passionate and deeply personal for each of us.

God's love is ineluctable!

i learned this word yesterday at church while listening in awe to this truth as it was poured into my heart, as if for the very first time.

i had never even heard the word before...

God loves me so deeply, pursues me so constantly...






He has chosen me to be the momma of these little blessings...He is gently using these tiny hearts to refine me...to drive me deeper into His arms. Each day that i spend with this "sweet mess" i am forced to lose myself in Him...

there is no other way to become less like me and more like Him.



there are not words to describe the feeling of being passionately, consistently, unendingly pursued by One such as He.

oh the joy of being ineluctably loved!