A New Year

A new year is here! BJ and I are very much a goal oriented couple... and I am looking forward to setting new goals for myself as well as my family. At times, when life seems overwhelming and I wonder if and how we can raise and homeschool four boys to be responsible, hard working, full of character, men of God, etc. ... I am reminded of a new goal we implemented in a previous year. Sometimes it was a small one or a no-brainer we should have been doing anyway, but remembering this encourages me. Life is a process. God is growing and teaching us. When I look at the families that are an encouragement to me, I often forget that it took years for them to get where they are too. This week we bought a new recliner for our home. It was such a big deal for Beege and I. In our 9 1/2 years of marriage we have been blessed with furniture (couches, chairs, and tables) from family. Some were cuter than others. :) (The orange and brown flowered chair was not my favorite.) I think young newlyweds often forget that it took their parents years to obtain the look they have today, and try to get it now. So this chair is a reminder to me that my living room is even closer to the primitive, country look I love.....and my family is a little closer to the family God wants us to be. To God be the glory.

" This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him. The Lord is good unto them who wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him." Lamentations 3: 21-25

"Call unto Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not." Jeremiah 33:3