Oh, Shannon, I sure hope there is some respair in my future. I try to live in hope and faithful expectation but there have been all the hard bumps for decades. I would expect to get hit square in the forehead with that 25' tape measure because that's what's been happening for years. Recently there have been a couple breakthroughs.
I'm writing about a hard situation that happened a year ago last weekend where I received a phone call right in the dark milddle of that mess that was an unexpected
blessing, but those have been rare. I do appreciate them when they come, because often it's God saying....see, I can answer your prayers. Just wait. I don't know what Reagan's diagnosis is but I imagine you've had a long hard season of mothering her. So thank you for passing on hope. It can be a rare commodity in this broken world.
So I just went back and read your blog post about Reagan's assessment and your blog post on sacrifice of praise. I have a friend who has four of her own children and has adopted two sets of 3 siblings-one set from Nepal who are doing well, except one girl who has developmental delays. The other set of siblings are all boys, all fetal alcohol syndrome. Honestly, this diagnosis should be enough to ban alcohol. But it never will be. She also runs a non-profit for mom's in Haiti to keep their kids out of orphanages. I honestly don't know how you ladies do it. We always laughed, because being the mother of 7, I was the only one brave enough to invite their family olver for a meal. Membership has its rewards. Lol
But I did get to your Sacrifice of Praise post. This inspired me to write my own sacrifice of praise in the near future. Thank you for thst beautiful post. It took almost a year for me to get to the place where I could thank God for this trial of addiction. Then I thanked him for bringing me into this community to love them, be an advocate for them. Pray for them. See them. Listen to them. All these thems are people and stories and lives lived in trauma and abandonment and rejection, so who blames them if they just go and find a place full of that and live there. So thank you for bringing a little light into my world because some days it's pretty dark and I spend a good amount of time crying into my sink.
Also the video link isn't working. Could you send it?
"Membership has its rewards." So hilarious and true and profound. I could write a post (or book) on that. 👏🏻👊🏻 I'm praying those breakthroughs begin to multiply in ways you can see and feel in these coming days, and that His presence is so strong in those moments at the sink...and elsewhere. 🤍
So sorry about the video; I closed that account a couple years ago and keep finding old links I need to erase! Thanks for drawing my attention to it.
Oh, Shannon, I sure hope there is some respair in my future. I try to live in hope and faithful expectation but there have been all the hard bumps for decades. I would expect to get hit square in the forehead with that 25' tape measure because that's what's been happening for years. Recently there have been a couple breakthroughs.
I'm writing about a hard situation that happened a year ago last weekend where I received a phone call right in the dark milddle of that mess that was an unexpected
blessing, but those have been rare. I do appreciate them when they come, because often it's God saying....see, I can answer your prayers. Just wait. I don't know what Reagan's diagnosis is but I imagine you've had a long hard season of mothering her. So thank you for passing on hope. It can be a rare commodity in this broken world.
So I just went back and read your blog post about Reagan's assessment and your blog post on sacrifice of praise. I have a friend who has four of her own children and has adopted two sets of 3 siblings-one set from Nepal who are doing well, except one girl who has developmental delays. The other set of siblings are all boys, all fetal alcohol syndrome. Honestly, this diagnosis should be enough to ban alcohol. But it never will be. She also runs a non-profit for mom's in Haiti to keep their kids out of orphanages. I honestly don't know how you ladies do it. We always laughed, because being the mother of 7, I was the only one brave enough to invite their family olver for a meal. Membership has its rewards. Lol
But I did get to your Sacrifice of Praise post. This inspired me to write my own sacrifice of praise in the near future. Thank you for thst beautiful post. It took almost a year for me to get to the place where I could thank God for this trial of addiction. Then I thanked him for bringing me into this community to love them, be an advocate for them. Pray for them. See them. Listen to them. All these thems are people and stories and lives lived in trauma and abandonment and rejection, so who blames them if they just go and find a place full of that and live there. So thank you for bringing a little light into my world because some days it's pretty dark and I spend a good amount of time crying into my sink.
Also the video link isn't working. Could you send it?
"Membership has its rewards." So hilarious and true and profound. I could write a post (or book) on that. 👏🏻👊🏻 I'm praying those breakthroughs begin to multiply in ways you can see and feel in these coming days, and that His presence is so strong in those moments at the sink...and elsewhere. 🤍
So sorry about the video; I closed that account a couple years ago and keep finding old links I need to erase! Thanks for drawing my attention to it.