Let Love Guide

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself. This quote is basically my life. It stirs in me something I've held in my heart for a long time. My entire life I have learned, slowly and with a LOT of sorrow, to make God my sufficiency. And in these past four months God has shown mercy, grace and miracles that directly points back to HIM and His incredible strength, love and GLORY. This is a story only God could write and it humbles me to be seen, known, molded and loved by Him. Scott and I have struggled with medical debt for 14 years. We married debt-free and planned to live an honest, generous, debt-free life. However, God had another journey for our family. Between a high-risk pregnancy, our boys surgeries to make their feet and legs strong, leg braces, ovarian cancer and subsequent cat scans, medicine and endless doctors appointments, we just never got ahead. The debt grew, compounded. It was

Our son, Noah, graduated from high school two weeks ago and Saturday/Sunday we moved him into his college dorm. On Sunday, as we drove to college, navigating through {crazy} Atlanta traffic, Noah in the back seat, I reminisced on the day we drove him home from the hospital, nearly 18 years to the day. The day we brought him home he was so small and fragile - 7 lb., 9 oz. of sweetness. It seemed all the cars on the road were a threat, even though we lived in a small town and even took side roads, where the max speed was 30 mph. Noah was our treasure, our pride and joy, and we wanted to protect him every day of his life. From the moment he entered the world he took my breath away. I was instantly in love. That first night I couldn't sleep. I stayed up all night, giddy like Christmas morning, marveling over his tiny fingers and toes, those cheeks and lips. {so delicious!} I whispered over and over my love for him. Being a mother is the greatest joy in my life. And today, on his

"Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion" ..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.” - C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe I'm married to a Clark Griswold-type man. His father and grandfather TRULY taught him everything he knows "about exterior illumination." Every year his collection of lights grows, and grows, and grows. I joke with visitors if they stand still for too long he'll wrap them in lights. Light covers every tree, door post, fence post and window of our home at Christmas {and it's BEAUTIFUL!} My Sparky does it right! ♥ And yet, despite the beauty of Christmas, JOY can be hard to find - which is proof what Christmas is all about is true: we need a Savior. And the same gr