Reflections of Gratitude

I am grateful that the Lord has given me another day to spend with these beautiful blessings and my husband.  I am grateful for the fact that I have a beautiful house, two cars, and am able to pay my bills.  I am grateful for the love of my parents who live next to me and how much our relationship has grown and matured over the years.  I am overwhelmingly blessed to have a church that I can call family.  I praise God that he gave me a voice to sing for Him.

I praise the Lord for my husband... without whom I would be lost and heartbroken.  He means more to me than I could ever put into words or actions.  He is my rock.  He has put up with me when no one else would have.  He has supported me in all of my crazy ideas and steps of faith.  He is my lover and my best friend.

I praise the Lord for Timothy... my oldest son.  I am forever grateful that the Lord gave me a heart that never even considered other options when I found myself pregnant at 15.  I'm not sure he will ever understand how much I love him and believe in him.  He has grown into quite a young man.  I am praying now for his future... and his future wife and family.  May he never really stray from the calling that God has on his life.

I am truly blessed and thankful for Kyra... my oldest daughter.  She is amazingly beautiful and has the most gorgeous singing voice.  She has been gifted by the Lord in awesome ways.  My prayer right now is that she would allow the Lord to heal her heart and fill the void that she's so desperately trying to fill herself.  I am also praying for her future and her future husband and family.  I pray that she would wait on God for His perfect timing and perfect mate.

Noah was my first reversal miracle.  He is inquisitive, thoughtful and sneaky.  ;-)  He's a perfect 5 year old.  I love to work with him on his homeschool studies and learning about our Lord together.  He is an awesome big brother to Eliana and Tabitha and adores Tim and Kyra, too.  He may look like a mini-Tim... but he is the exact opposite in temperment and demeaner.

I am grateful that, although I do not understand why God allowed me to experience the three miscarriages next, I can better understand those who have also experienced losses and the heartache that goes with it.

Eliana was my next miracle.  We honestly weren't sure that God would give us any further children.  She is precious, spirited, beautiful, and precocious.  And, just like Noah... she may LOOK like Kyra... but she has the temperment and demeaner of Tim.  Boy are we in trouble!  :-)

Most recently, I am thankful beyond measure for Tabitha.  I was (and still am most days) not ready for this little one.  But, I absolutely cannot imagine life without her.  She is fiesty and yet mellow.  She is very content most of the time and just loves to snuggle and watch everything going on around her.  She nurses like a champ, squeals when tickled and cut her first tooth two nights ago.  She will be 6 months old on the 29th and is as precious as when she was born.

I am thankful for SO much more, but this is all I wanted to fit into one posting.  I pray that this coming week will be one of thanksgiving and rejoicing even more.