I'm sure that you have heard the term " You only have one life, so make it a good one " , well one thing about following God's leading for your life is that you never know where he is going to take you....and its usually places you never dreamed you would or could go. I never dreamed I'd have a masters degree...much less live in a 100 year old house of my dreams and have 5 kids! God is giving me the strength, patience and enough insanity to cope with the demands that are placed on me...and when people ask me (and I have been asked how I do it) I often say I have no idea. That's because its not my life! I know that people look at my life and think she has got to be crazy, or what was she thinking? But that's it....I wasn't! Giving God complete control over every aspect of your life doesn't look "normal". Our normal and God's aren't the same. We are all too often lured by our culture to think that certain things in life are worth aspiring to. Comfort, wholeness, peace, security, these things all sound good, but the problem is that we will pursue these things for our entire lives and never attain them on our own. These are all things that man has tried to pursue since Adam and Eve and to my knowledge...no one has ever achieved it! Its mans natural tendency to want those things but only God can truly give us the comfort we crave, the wholeness we desire, the peace in the midst of a storm in our lives and the security that there is a plan. I may not have a road map to my life, or even for my day. But I know that having the creator of the universe writing my life plan is a whole lot more comforting, peace giving and secure than I could ever hope for myself. God promises to make all things new and in his plan I know that in the end I will have compete wholeness...in Him, and that all the whys and wondering will be answered from His wisdom..not my little brain. Is it scary...sometimes...its like riding that rollercoaster with your eyes closed and knowing that you are slowing climbing the hill and peeking right before you plunge into the dive, but in the end you loved every minute of it, and want to go back and do it again. You trusted that the ride was safe and that it was designed for you to have the thrill of your life. Trust God to do that for your life...no matter how crazy it seems to others. You have all eternity to reflect on it and rest knowing that the ride was well worth it!
P.S. Just in case any of you try to contact me at home...we are in Michigan til August 1st. So email me at lov2stamp@yahoo.com!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Emily
In case you are looking for an Emily update...go to
http://emilyhenrichs.blogspot.com/
You can get info there from today as well as info about sending her an ecard !
Monday, May 18, 2009
Website created for Emily Henrichs
I have created a website to update friends and family who are praying and supporting Emily and her family. Please pray and subscribe the blog so that you can be updated on any changes. You can find a link to her blog in the right hand corner of this blog. Please continue praying.
Please pray....
We are asking anyone who reads this to pray for friends of ours, Andrea and Wayne Henrichs and their daughter Emily. Today they recieved the news that the strange flu like symptoms that their daughter has been having are actually the result of a mass they have found in her head. Nothing is known at this time about the details of the mass, and they are going to Peoria ( St Francis Medical Center) tonight to be admitted and an MRI is planned for tomorrow. Please pray for peace and freedom from fear. I will try to keep you informed here if I recieve an update.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
When was the last post? What day is it?
I wish I had the words to put here for the past month after being home....the best way to say our lives is....looking for SLEEP! Maybe its being over 4o, or transition to a new home, world, life, culture...but sleep is more valuable than $ right now! There is a million distractions and only so many hours in the day with 5 kids ages 15, 13, 11, & 11. So much to see and do...that naptime, and bedtime become a major challenge sometimes. Eliana is usually the biggest trouper of all. She is so patient with us forgetting her bottle time, or pushing bed time a bit past norm. Flexible is her true nature, and patience is her strongest quality...or is it tolerance? Its hard to tell! Either way she fits right into our family in a healthy way.
She is amazing and so hand picked for us. Every day is a blessing to us!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Eliana's Mama
A day doesn't go by when I don't hold Ellie and think bout the woman who carried her for 9 months and had to leave her. I don't think we will ever have the true answer as to why she couldn't keep her daughter. Many reasons, perhaps she was single and couldn't provide for her alone. Maybe she was married and already had a child and couldn't afford to feed two. She may have simply had a son already and according to Chinese law she couldn't have another child. There is intense pressure to not go against the good of all, and keeping the population down in China is for the good of all. Having more than one child is seen as self serving and is looked down upon. These are just a few of the scenarios that could have taken place, but ultimately Eliana's mother loved her enough to give her life, to deliver her and for 5 days care for her before placing her at the gate of an elementary school before dawn, knowing that soon someone would find her. It breaks my heart to think of the agony that must have been for her. Not knowing what has happened to her baby, was she loved? And here I sit, typing this with a sweet baby in my lap, sleeping soundly...unaware that she is loved so much, and that all of this was already planned ahead of her birth by a God that loves her more than any parent could. Its all really hard to comprehend, but I think it really is evidence that God still performs miracles if we look for them.
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