Today's Blessings

I've been reflecting this morning on the many great things God has done in my life this past year. This time last year I was getting home from a summer of mission work. 10 days in Brazil, 2.5 weeks in Malawi and a trip to Iceland with my mawmaw. Bryon was busy with lots of trainings and army stuff but he drove the 3.5 hrs to Shelby every weekend to spend time with me and my family. I remember thinking, I have the most wonderful, loving, and Godly man that I've ever met (and that says a lot considering how much I have always admired and respected my dad), I was/am so privileged to be involved in the Lord's work around the world and build relationships that will hopefully continue into heaven one day, I was fortunate enough to be able to work on my masters degree and had the best job in the world working in the school system with so many children who needed love and attention, which I was more than willing to give. But just when you think it can't get any better, the Lord rocks your boat and says, "My child, you think I've blessed you now? Just wait..."

What an overwhelming sense of gratitude I am feeling today. So many people I talk to say, I am so sorry you have had to have Bryon deployed the first 8 months of your marriage it must be so hard. It is hard, your right, but when I step back from my little pity parties that I sometimes find myself slipping into and look at the big picture, it has been a series of incredible and overwhelmingly generous blessings from my Father, one after the other after the other. So today, as I realize that I have only 28 days until my husband gets home, I give thanks for God's gracious love and that His plans are so much greater than mine.