Can I say, "Thank You"?

During these recent days I have been going to bed with my ipod next to my ear playing praise music all night long. The nights can be so oppressive and dark when the valleys are deep. This song has especially ministered to me. I pray this ministers to you too.

Almost

Just a couple more days and "Hoss" will be back in the area. Many emotions are running through our minds, but the most important: trust. Oh, yes, the anxiety comes and goes, but we are striving to continually go back to the Word and the truth of who God is.

Agape Boarding School as just put out their most recent newsletter and our family is featured there. What an awesome opportunity to praise God for His amazing provisions over the last three years.

Here it is!

Another fabulous thing God has done in the last two weeks is to send other parents just starting this journey of far off love for their boys that are now residing at the place my boy has been for three years. Their hearts are torn and hurting. My heart hurts to hear them, yet I am so confident in what God has done in our lives, I can give them hope in the cross and in our Savior. This has helped so much to calm my fears and AGAIN!!! go back to the truth I know. Thanks for your prayers friends.

Pondering This...

Grace for Each Moment

As "Hoss" nears his first year anniversary of being away from our home, (but not our hearts), we know this means he is closer to coming home. And with that fact, comes the thoughts of the unknown future.

Last summer so much happened to break down our trust and relationship with him. The Lord has healed so much hurt and restored so much of the relationship between parents and son, but there is still so many questions we don't have answers for. Things we must trust the Lord for. Things we can only guess.

Thankfully, our God knows all the details for our lives. He knows how much grace we will need for the future events. He is our sustaining power that is perfected in our weaknesses.

It Is Not Death to Die

This song was given to me on a cd by a precious friend. (The lyrics are below.) This has ministered to me immensely during the difficult days since Mom's passing from this life to the next.

It is not death to die,
To leave this weary road,
And midst the brotherhood on high
To be at home with God.

It is not death to close
The eye long dimmed by tears,
And wake, in glorious repose,
To spend eternal years.

It is not death to bear
The wrench that sets us free
From dungeon chain, to breath the air
Of boundless liberty.

It is not death to fling
Aside this sinful dust
And rise, on strong exulting wing
To live among the just.

Jesus, Thou Prince of Life,
Thy chosen cannot die:
Like Thee, they conquer in the strife
To reign with Thee on high.

For the child of God, death has been beat; there is no sting, no fear, no mystery and no loneliness. Praise Him for conquering all.