Gosh! It's been a while!!!
Oh how much life has changed since my last posting in early September...
Some of the most amazing things, some of the hardest, some of the most fun, and some of the most sad. LIFE is what happened just plain and simple; but if you care to know more you can read on a little.
Firstly - On Sept 11, 06 while most were having memorials for the 5 year anniversary of a very sad day in US history... I was excitedly preparing to share some of the most AWESOME news with my husband that I could ever share. After 6 years of trying to becoming pregnant -- we FINALLY were. I called him towards the end of the work day and jokingly teased about not cooking supper(as I often try to do - I'm not the cook in our family, lol)... so it didn't alert him to anything "special" happening. During the day I had prepared a little digital card with a photo of the "positive" test and a "Congratulations Daddy!!" on the inside. I had the restaurant bring it out to him with our camera to take a photo when he read it. IT was one of the happiest moments in our lives to date!
Soon after that event, everything in our lives just started to roll like the "snowball effect" so many refer to headed down a huge hill. We ended up moving out of state(which was way more stressful than just moving across town-to my surprise), my husband changed jobs, and unfortunately within a few short weeks of finding out we were pregnant, we were in the ER having a miscarriage. So many life changes in so little time... all within 2-3 months. By December we were a "tad" overwhelmed with all that was going on... to say the least.
BUT... God is our great and merciful defender, protector, and the shielder of our FAITH. We have grown so much through all of this. We are stronger "together" as a family unit and stronger in our beliefs as a brother and sister in Christ. Even though things haven't turned out perfectly in our minds, there has been this amazing freedom and peace that has happened in us over the past 7 months. Awesomely enough, there is a renewed HOPE that has taken place in our spirit-man. Our realization of how much of a LOVING Father, how much of a friend in Christ Jesus, and how much of a comforter in the Holy Spirit that we truly hold in the palms of our hands has become a daily realization in our innermost beings. -- Oh how very, very much!!! He really does LOVE us with an "unconditional love" that most never experience in a lifetime. We have found it over and over again in GOD. In addition, we have been fortunate enough to realize that he has blessed us even here on this earth with one another in experiencing that same unconditional love with one another.
So, all that said... even though "life" really came at us, the "LIFEgiver" came at us in an even more "powerful" way. We didn't welcome all the changes right away, but... now at this point -- "more or less" on the other side of it all, our Hearts are forever changed... We are continuing to welcome whatever has come in our past, whatever is here in our present, and whatever may come in our future. We are also trying to remember to continually "THANK" God for bringing the trials, tribulations, and the blessings our way. "In ALL things, give Thanks" 1 Thess 5:18
We have moved one more step closer towards the mark in this race.
Peace and Blessings,
Shawna
Some of the most amazing things, some of the hardest, some of the most fun, and some of the most sad. LIFE is what happened just plain and simple; but if you care to know more you can read on a little.
Firstly - On Sept 11, 06 while most were having memorials for the 5 year anniversary of a very sad day in US history... I was excitedly preparing to share some of the most AWESOME news with my husband that I could ever share. After 6 years of trying to becoming pregnant -- we FINALLY were. I called him towards the end of the work day and jokingly teased about not cooking supper(as I often try to do - I'm not the cook in our family, lol)... so it didn't alert him to anything "special" happening. During the day I had prepared a little digital card with a photo of the "positive" test and a "Congratulations Daddy!!" on the inside. I had the restaurant bring it out to him with our camera to take a photo when he read it. IT was one of the happiest moments in our lives to date!
Soon after that event, everything in our lives just started to roll like the "snowball effect" so many refer to headed down a huge hill. We ended up moving out of state(which was way more stressful than just moving across town-to my surprise), my husband changed jobs, and unfortunately within a few short weeks of finding out we were pregnant, we were in the ER having a miscarriage. So many life changes in so little time... all within 2-3 months. By December we were a "tad" overwhelmed with all that was going on... to say the least.
BUT... God is our great and merciful defender, protector, and the shielder of our FAITH. We have grown so much through all of this. We are stronger "together" as a family unit and stronger in our beliefs as a brother and sister in Christ. Even though things haven't turned out perfectly in our minds, there has been this amazing freedom and peace that has happened in us over the past 7 months. Awesomely enough, there is a renewed HOPE that has taken place in our spirit-man. Our realization of how much of a LOVING Father, how much of a friend in Christ Jesus, and how much of a comforter in the Holy Spirit that we truly hold in the palms of our hands has become a daily realization in our innermost beings. -- Oh how very, very much!!! He really does LOVE us with an "unconditional love" that most never experience in a lifetime. We have found it over and over again in GOD. In addition, we have been fortunate enough to realize that he has blessed us even here on this earth with one another in experiencing that same unconditional love with one another.
So, all that said... even though "life" really came at us, the "LIFEgiver" came at us in an even more "powerful" way. We didn't welcome all the changes right away, but... now at this point -- "more or less" on the other side of it all, our Hearts are forever changed... We are continuing to welcome whatever has come in our past, whatever is here in our present, and whatever may come in our future. We are also trying to remember to continually "THANK" God for bringing the trials, tribulations, and the blessings our way. "In ALL things, give Thanks" 1 Thess 5:18
We have moved one more step closer towards the mark in this race.
Peace and Blessings,
Shawna
posted by shawnyrvr | 4/27/2007 01:20:00 PM
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