Home on a Sunday morning...

Landon's still recovering from a cough/cold he's had for a week now... So he and I are at home while Chad and Ty are at church... well until we meet up with them for the 11:00 and Landon gets to go to big church with us :)

It's nice to be at home on a Sunday morning with him, not rushing around hurrying to get to church to serve at the 9:00 service and just be able to sit and spend time with the Lord before heading to church. Don't get me wrong, I love serving, love seeing my third grade girls in small group during Flight School and interacting with them but these Sundays are nice every once in a while.

I was just reading a day out of The Daily Message (trying once again to read through the bible in a year!) and I'm in Genesis where it talks about God testing Abraham and asking him to go to the mountain top to sacrifice his son Isaac. Abraham so faithfully does what God asks of him and just seconds before he's about to kill his son he hears the heavens shout out to him to stop. Can you imagine?! I know I can't... as I sit here and read that while listening to Landon jibber jabber in his highchair and eat his snacks... I can't imagine doing that... God blessed Abraham a hundred-fold thereafter knowing that Abraham was willing to give his son, to be obedient and do whatever God asked of him...

It just makes me wonder how many times God has tested me... and how many times I've said no or just ignored hearing something from him.

How many opportunities/blessings have I missed out on?

I am praying that I will willingly say yes to whatever God asks of me... praying that I am open to listen to whatever He says to me and do what He calls me to do.

The Last Year...

2008 - 120 blogs...
2009 - 73 blogs...
2010 - 20 blogs...

As life gets busier... well... some things get put on the backburner... like blogging.

The last year of my life has been the fastest and busiest yet. As I look back, everything just kind of blurs together...

A lot happened in 2010, good and bad, but I love how I can see God in and through each and every day of it.

God grew me as a woman, a mom and a wife.

He challenged me to seek Him with everything during the dry, desert times and was so faithfully there during the times when I cried out to Him.

January 2010 started with the birth of my second son, Landon, a boy that has been just a huge blessing in my life this last year. He is perfect, content, happy, always smiling, hardly ever fussy and he is exactly what God knew I could handle after chasing my wild and crazy Tyler for 2 years.

In 2010 I wish that I would have journaled more, blogged more, documented more... I wish I knew the exact dates of when Landon started smiling, laughing, crawling, like I did with Tyler... In 2011 I want to do these things, not because I feel like I have to or that I should and not just when He's doing something big in my life (like getting shingles or being attacked be bees) but I want I document more of my God and my journey with Him whether it's in my journal, on blogger, on the pages of my Bible... just somewhere! I'm not a natural writer by any means... I absolutely hated and struggled with English classes throughout high school and college... but I don't want that to stop me... Those times when I have journaled I absolutely love looking back on what I've written later on, seeing where I was in my walk or how faithful God was.. it's awesome and I want to do it more.

2010 was, as 2011 continues to be, an interesting time for Chad's work, to say the least... He is on the global team for his company, entailing that he travels... out of the country... more often than I would like. It started by going to Canada when Landon was 2 weeks old, then again at 3 months old, followed by a trip to Greece a few months later, then another Canada trip after that... Now he's preparing to go to Cambodia. We are trusting that this is all part of our God's plan. I am trying not to worry... not to stress about every detail that all of this consists of... This has been a challenge for me on a daily basis as I would love for him to have just a regular 8-5, local job, or better yet, go back to working for himself!, and not have to plan for these crazy times when he's halfway across the world... but I am trying with all that I am to be positive, optimistic, grateful, thankful, content and at peace to follow His leading and His will for our family.

I want 2011 to be a year of growing in the Lord like I never have before.

I am craving that time with Him and there is no better feeling.