Happy Thanksgiving!It is so easy to be thankful when everything in life is going well ... kind of how little boy is so sweet when everything is going his way (ahh ... the "twos"!). It's another story when nothing seems to be going right. It is easy for me to entertain not-so-thankful thoughts when dealing with the challenges of our house project. I won't bore you with a list of those challenges, but they are there. By doing this, though, I overlook the many benefits of our situation. For example, we are able to live on one income instead of one and a half while our little ones are, well, really little. In many ways, our life is very home-centered than ever before ... instead of me working a regular part-time schedule or hubby taking on second job, he works at home where he can still be apart of our family. Not many families have that option and I am so grateful for it. We live one and a half miles away from our church and school, where little girl will be attending next fall. A PRN job fell in my lap a little over a year ago at a care center that is only 7 miles from us, which means I can work when it works out best for our family and hubby can usually watch the kids in the late afternoon/early evening. For us, these benefits outweigh the costs. I am not saying that this is the only or the right way to do things - I don't believe that. I can attest to the fact that it's not necessarily the easiest way. I am simply thankful, especially for God's promise not to give us more than we can handle. I recently read the book Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free by Tullian Tchividjian. I keep picking it up and re-reading parts of it because it is just that good. One of my favorite quotes: "Suffering has a way of stripping all resources away from us so that in the end, all that we have is the only thing that matters: the approval of God based on the accomplished work of Jesus."The challenges of this past year have certainly shown me, time and time again, my total dependence on Christ. And this is exactly where I need to be.
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