Updates...we are still taking shirt orders online through 3/23/12. If you already placed your order, I promise they will arrive in just a few more days. Sherri is quickly screening away. (We just had our image digitized so that we could start the whole printing process.) I'm so excited!!!!! Hee hee!
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| June 19, 1999 Our wedding kiss!! Hubba Hubba! Hee hee! |
Last weekend my hubby went to a men's retreat called Tres Dias. Throughout the weekend the men grew closer and helped each other grow in their faith in Jesus. So while my darling hubby was gone, I was left to my own devices...cue the chocolate, shopping, sappy movies, card playing and giggling with the girls. OKAY don't laugh, but I lied awake with my eyes open like an hoot owl!!! HA!! My goodness did I ever miss him and try to "fill" my time with things and activities. I don't think I knew how much I would miss him, until he was gone for 3 days!!!!! Now that he's back it's been one amazing week!!! My girlfriends have deemed our home the LOVESHACK!!! Bahahahaha! This got me thinking though...am I using my hubby to fill a GIGANTIC space in my heart/life? Am I putting too much on him and others? He can't calm my upset heart all the time, poor fella sometimes he's the source of my frustration!!! (I MEAN REALLY PUT THE TOILET SEAT DOWN!!! WILL A PEDICURE REALLY BUST THE BUDGET?? Hee hee!) My sweet besties, try as they might, can't fill my needy-want-approval-heart-at-all-times. Shopping sure can't fill it, chocolate can't (although this one gets really close, until the jeans are tight, heavy sigh), unrealistic romance movies can't fill my heart, and wanting a baby can't fill it.
Oh boy, did my answer come in an abrupt slap in the face moment last Sunday. I just happened to pop-in my Beth Moore DVD "A Heart like HIS" to hear her next lesson. She asked all of us Drama Queens out there if we let irritation or ANYTHING creep in and bleed out into everything else, before we ever turned to God. Do I have to answer that out loud? In my weekend of alone time, I let myself get so worked up. I didn't turn to Him. Him who offers me the best peace, love, and comfort in the world. Some of us, um you know 'that girl'... ME, keep needing to hear messages like this and unfortunately must experience it in a furry of loneliness and years of heartache in trying to grow a family. God is and has been with me the whole time.
Have any of ya'll been there? Are you there today? Seeking, searching, waiting, hoping for something greater? Keep believing and looking for God's love all around you! You will be SHOCKED at the little things that mean so much. An encouraging note when you didn't expect it, a Hershey's kiss in your mailbox at work, seeing a recommitted heart in your friend after a battle with addiction, laughter in the wee hours with 4 best friends, an email from a friend who shares the same struggle you are going through, hearing God's voice streaming right into your ear from a DVD study, and praying with a husband that wants God more than anything else in this world. Be encouraged. Keep working out whatever thing HE is trying to teach you. Love you all for reading, praying, and following our story. More news to come!
