Thank you for your congratulations and yes, "what a wonderful blessing" indeed! I had not been looking even though I knew I needed to so God knocks on the door and hands me what seems like the perfect fit (based on 4 days to assessment of the pro's and the cons) for this time in my life.
Even as I have detailed all the "right" choices I have tried to make since X left, I am not entitled nor do I "deserve" any of these blessings but the God of the bible is good, loving and wants to bless His children so I gratefully accept the good (and the bad) He allows in my life.
Baby Girl "Tuck in" and prayers Just now, I tucked in my 16 y/o daughter and prayed with her as I did when she was a child, living with me. I shared some stories and some pictures from my Hawaii trip and was appreciative of the time with her. She spent the evening with a former soccer teammate who just returned home from her freshman year of college. Too soon, she will be gone as well.
Quote:
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
I met a pastor from the Philipines who was in Hawaii supporting the outreach and he said something profound while we casually ate a meal with the a couple of teams from the mainland and the local organizers. He said, "When we are younger we go out on mission trips anticipating that God will work through us to help others. As we get a little more mature, we realize that what is really going on on these trips is the work that God is doing to mold and change US." This from a man who sold everything here in the U.S. to move to the Philipines with his wife and young child, and who eventually adopted 27 orphaned children, one by one (He is now in his mid 40's).
God continues to lovingly mold and shape me. He did a good deal of this during the trip. I don't deserve His grace and Mercy but I gladly accept it and I am ever so thankful, ever so thankful!
Man do I feel like George Baily, It IS a wonderful life!
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