perfect peace comes not from anything or anyone else, but our Father in Heaven

God brings his peace into situations where we’re most afraid and most frightened, not where there is no fear or no trepidation. It’s in the moments when we need God’s peace most desperately that He supplies it most abundantly.

I think what we really want isn’t peace. It’s calm conditions. Unfortunately, Jesus never promised us that. He only promised us His presence:
Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age Matthew 28:20.

And it’s His presence that should fill us with peace in the midst of any unpeaceful circumstance we ever encounter.

Thank You Father, for your peace that surpasses all understanding; thank You for the perfect peace that You bring us in our times we need it most. We thank You and praise You, for being the ultimate provider of all things in our lives. In Jesus name, Amen.

Bad Day

I had a "bad day" this week. We all have them. Those days when you just want to crawl back into bed, pull the covers over your head, and start it over. A re-do day. A rewinding of events. Maybe a "Delete" button.
Unfortunately, that isn't reality.

But, what I learned this week after a very "bad day", was that my bad days are not truly bad. If I didn't learn something through them, then I think I can justify labeling them as such. But since I learned from this bad day, I realize it wasn't at all as bad as it seemed at the moment.

I will never forget this day. I won't forget the moment my mind was in a wirlwind, and I was struggling to grasp the reason such a bad thing could happen. Why now? What now? went through my mind. I had Logan with me. I looked down and saw two things. 1. The little boy gripping my hand, and the smile my son had on his face. 2. the hot pink bracelet on my wrist that says Love- Avery Love.

I remembered the smiling face of a little girl who has Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Avery Love. In that very moment of chaos, confusion, and in the midst of my bad day I was reminded of all I have. Of all I don't have. And all I'm thankful for.

Everyone has a bad day, noone is immune to it. But I encourage you to take a step back, and take a closer look at all the "good". Because there is a lot of it to behold.

boys will be boys

My child has discovered toilet paper.
He has such a fascination with toilet paper.

It's the little things...

Logan disappeared for about 2 minutes, so I started looking for him.

Here's where I found him, unrolling the entire fresh roll of tp in my bathroom floor. He then began to swim in it! He got such a kick out of swimming in the tp that I didn't even discipline him because we both couldn't stop laughing! Sometimes, I just let him be the boy he's gonna be.
After all, boys will be boys.

July 2011

Mr. Bear (seen in the picture below) goes everywhere with us. Everywhere.
Recently, we lost Mr. Bear for a short period of time and couldn't find him anywhere. I actually began to panic a little, simply because of how attached to this bear Logan is, and realized I'm pretty attached to him too. I will save that bear, forever. My baby boy has slept with it, carried it everywhere he goes, tried to bathe with this bear,everything. Since he was just a tiny little baby....