my daughter is such a huge blessing... she turned four and now keeps telling me how big she is and how she could do so many things on her own. we are still working on how four year olds need to eat their fruits and veggies. ha ha... she's so cute. the night before her birthday, we got a few packages and i laid out her presents and told her she needed to wait til the next day. while i was making dinner i asked her to turn on some music. A asked if she could listen to Christmas music and i said whatever she would like. then she said, "cuz my birthday is kind of like Christmas." i just laughed. we had a great celebration. thanks everyone for packages, cards, e-mails, calls, fb messages... she loved them. please pray for her to grow up to be a woman who has a heart fully after God and that nothing would fill her except for Him.
our house has been such a blessing... we've had a crazy week of people coming in and out of our house, but i have loved it and A loved having her tante-tante (aunts) and om-om (uncles) coming over to play with her. tuesday we had our small group here. thursday friends came to celebrate A's birthday. friday i had a women's study and even had a friend sleep over. tonight we had people from the Center over to eat dinner and watch a movie and just hang out. what a blessing. my love language to others is acts of service. i love serving people... so i love when people are over and i could cook, serve, clean up and just let them hang out and have fun. so my tank of giving is being filled!! praise God for a house where i could do that. please keep praying that God would use this house to bring people in.
my car... i praise God for such generous in-laws... i have been doing so much of with that car already. i like that i could pick people up to come over to my place, shop for events without stress, go on dates with A, take people home after having them over at my place... it's just been a blessing. please pray that the car would be a tool for God's kingdom advancement.
friends... i had multiple friends this week tell me that they would love to watch A so that i could do things that i would like to do. what a blessing. God is so good and really bringing people to serve me. please pray that the Lord will continually bring people at the right time to help us when we need it.
internet... i don't know how people did it a long time ago, living so far away from family without internet. having letters take months to get delivered. now it's just 2 weeks.
counting my blessings... counting them one by one and seeing how much the Lord is intimately involved in my life... leading the way.
i am so excited about what God is doing in my life... i got a message today on fb and someone mentioned how they could see joy in my smiles lately... i was so blessed by those words. actually it's funny... today i took the love language quiz and my two love languages i like to receive is quality time and words of affirmation. so if you want to love me... those are some good ways to let me know you care. ha ha... so that fb message meant a lot... also we were talking with friends this morning and this friend mentioned how i was so brave... i don't think of myself that way, but it meant a lot to hear that. thanks friends.
alright it's late... need to go to bed.
fb has some great pictures up.
