It is midnight and I am finally winding down for the night (typical life of a mother). Like other moms, my only down time is during the nights. The baby is down, sleeping peacefully. The husband is also down sleeping peacefully, snoring away. I love my son and I love my husband but, boy oh boy, do I love my quiet time.
As I lay here on my new laptop (thank you Jesus!) next to my precious son and my snoring (but also precious!) husband, I can't help but be filled with love. I am so very in love with my family, and so very thankful to my Heavenly Father for giving them to me. I often stop to just think about them; to look at my son and his perfect skin, hair, eyelashes, cute little rolls, and think to myself, "This is too good to be true. He is too perfect. Dear God, help me to take care of this little blessing You have for some reason entrusted me with." And when I think of my husband and all he has done for me and all that he is to me, I fall in love all over again. This was the 17 year old boy I met at church, and thought, I'm going to marry that guy (of course, I never told him that until AFTER we actually got married). I am so thankful to God that he has been so faithful to me and has answered the quiet prayers of my past timid, young self. I have dreamt and prayed for my family long before I even knew them. I have to say that I would encourage anyone else to do the same in their singleness. To be able to look back on those prayers and to see how God has answered them is a huge blessing and reminder to me that God hears and is faithful. Because, let's face it, there will be hard times. And sometimes those tiny little reminders are the big things that get us through it.
Off to bed now while thinking of my many blessings and answered prayers. Thank you God for them all. <3
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"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" Romans 8:28
