On Memorial Day of 2013 I had a miscarriage. I was 12 weeks along, and we were all sad and confused. Josiah and Promise were so overjoyed with the prospect of having a new baby sibling, and then for months after were still processing the sadness and confusion. We talked a lot about heaven and how God still loves us and they gained more knowledge of who God is, and how He is always taking care of His children.
During the next year, I kept turning to Jesus in my pain and questions. I know He is always blessing us, so I focused on being thankful for the little things and holding on to His promises to us. To me.
"You will again obey the Lord and follow all His commands...Then, the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb,...The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as He delighted in your fathers."
Dueteronomy 30:8-9
This verse was one of the many that I have clung to while waiting and listening to the Holy Spirit.
I am here today to say that God is faithful to all His promises and to you, because He cares about you!
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2014
a few of my favorite things
I've found some great gems here in LosAngeles and I want to share what I've discovered about this place and what I've also discovered about God and me. Being a newcomer to downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), since March of 2014, I've had to explore, rather I get to. I've always loved exploring growing up in Michigan, China, and California. Lately, I have been reflecting on all of those beloved 'secret' places, because that is where I would encounter God.
Narnia is a hiking trail in upper peninsula Michigan, it looked like you were in the classic C.S Lewis book. Natural beauty of rocks, moss, trees, water, animals, and no people around. There was also a large boulder that had many little nooks cut out of one side and 'someone' put little doll furniture inside. We children were told that the gnomes and trolls that lived there didn't want us to see them, so they left in such a hurry that they didn't have time to take everything with them.
I know that this is what God has been reminding me about, but its also a new realization, I have been praying and asking for more joy and singing this song "...may we never loose our wonder, wide-eyed, mystified, let me be just like a child, staring at the beauty of our King." -Amanda Cook
Narnia is a hiking trail in upper peninsula Michigan, it looked like you were in the classic C.S Lewis book. Natural beauty of rocks, moss, trees, water, animals, and no people around. There was also a large boulder that had many little nooks cut out of one side and 'someone' put little doll furniture inside. We children were told that the gnomes and trolls that lived there didn't want us to see them, so they left in such a hurry that they didn't have time to take everything with them.
I know that this is what God has been reminding me about, but its also a new realization, I have been praying and asking for more joy and singing this song "...may we never loose our wonder, wide-eyed, mystified, let me be just like a child, staring at the beauty of our King." -Amanda Cook
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