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Well, it looks like I have to change my name and my email address sometime in the next 6 months or so! After 5 years, I found out that I am unexpectedly expecting! I will be changing from mtnmamaof4 to mtnmamaof5! Baby is expected in the beginning of January. What an adventure! My oldest is starting high school and my youngest is starting kindergarten in the fall. Not really what I had in mind for our lives right now. But God had other plans. And I've finally come around to trusting His thinking on this. I think! But seriously, I am praying over this school year more than ever before. And would greatly appreciate any advice on enjoying an infant while homeschooling 4 other children! I am sure I can rest in God's grace to get me through this when the time arrives. It is just the nine months waiting and wondering that are so hard! :) It seems my mind wanders to worry so easily. I need to train it to wander to the Savior instead. God always seems like He is asking, "Do you trust Me?" That is really what everything in life boils down to. Do we trust Him? Do we trust Who He says He is? Do we trust what His Word says? Do we trust what He says about us? Do we trust His payment for our sins? Do we trust His plan for our lives? Do we trust Him with our children? Do we trust Him with our economic situation? Or do we grab hold of the controls ourselves because we think WE could do a better job? That somehow our lives are safer in our hands than in HIS. WOW. I need to repent of that sin of arrogance. Because sometimes the fear I feel is really saying I think I can do a better job of planning, orchestrating, and protecting this life I am living. Because I forget this is not MY life. That He bought it with a price. That living is no longer about me but about Him. And I want to be part of the plan that He has. I want to bring glory to Him with the life He gave me to live. I don't want to waste my life..... I want to pour it out for Him.
There is a great book written by John Piper called Don't Waste Your Life. It can be downloaded and read for free here: http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/OnlineBooks/ByTitle/1593_Dont_Waste_Your_Life/ Here's a great video/song that illustrates the same principle. (And no, I don't normally listen to rap but this song is just SOOOO doctrinally sound with such a great message!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWEllqh5J0 |
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