Wow! Time Flies. We finished the house, added an upstairs, three of us have had significant surgeries, Covid-19 has invaded history, our oldest-Katie has graduated from college, Melissa has entered college and is attending UTArlington in the Fall, Mark graduates from high school going off to college somewhere in the fall, and our Matthew is working on his driver's license! Oh, and I can't dare forget---we also built a house to sell during that time, and sold it! Longest sentence ever, but what do I do when I have to sum up 4 years!
Life as we knew it before 2020 has changed a bit. I saw an appropriate post today, saying---Is February 2023 really starting today? Well, it has! Why would someone ask that question? Somehow it feels like the scripture that says we don't know what tomorrow brings, so we say, If the Lord wills, I will....that scripture--is so appropriate in the days where lock downs, quarantines, and unknown futures have happened. Not that we knew our futures before 2020, we just thought we knew what to expect. Sometimes, not knowing what to expect is a greater fear than the actual life itself happening is.
A few lessons that I have learned---not that I have learned them for good, but I have learned them at least once.
Trust the Lord.
Sometimes, the healing is the miracle. Sometimes, the surgery is the miracle. Sometimes the miracle is the closeness to Jesus. Sometimes the miracle involves other people receiving miracles not just you.
Oh and Trust the Lord AGAIN and AGAIN...our need to do this is daily.
Something, I am learning lately is our need to ask the Lord for things in faith--believing in His power.
