Just Like That

She asked if she could wear something cute this morning.  I said of course she could.  She ended up picking out her gray arrow tee and hot pink shorts.  I like her.  She told me all about how she’s excited and sad at the same time.

Last night she drew her ‘last day of first grade’ board.  She didn’t need any help.  She wanted to do it all on her own.  No spelling help required.  She has learned so much this year.  She has grown and been stretched in amazing ways.  She is this incredible little lady and it’s an honor to watch God work on her…to watch as He molds her and changes her.  I hope she feels Him…hears Him…sees Him…in and around everything.  I hope when He calls her, she comes running.

I walked her into school to deliver Ms. Flowers’ class gift.  Hello happy wreath with gift cards.  How many different ways can you present a teacher in one year with gift cards and/or money…lots!

I didn’t think I would be very emotional because I know this is what happens.  Time and growing and changing are nothing new…no big shockers, but when I was walking out of Susan’s room I started to get a wee bit teary.  Moist eyes.  Harper has had such a great year and Susan is such a wonderful teacher.  They really love each other.  And change is on the horizon for our family.  God is teaching us and growing us and changing us and although I know that’s what families do…this shouldn’t be a shocker…and yet it is…I feel it in my heart and head.  It’s exciting and nerve wracking and heart swelling and emotion brewing.  It’s strange how one day you are in hot pursuit of one thing…a dream…a goal…a want…a longing…and then Just.Like.That…God changes your heart.  Flips a switch.  Pulls you in.  Opens your eyes.  Says, “Look now.  See what I am really doing.”  Oh God, You are so good.

It’s hard to change…even though we always know it’s coming.  It’s so easy to tell God we love Him and trust Him and that we are His..that our children are His, but it’s a whole new story when we have to really act those words out.  When we look towards Him, open that tight controlling grip we have on our life and say, “Here God.  Here it all is.  It’s really yours.  Not my will, but Yours.”

“I don’t think the way you think.  The way you work isn’t the way I work.”  God’s Decree.
“For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.  Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed.  They’ll do the work I sent them to do, they’ll complete the assignment I gave them.  “So you’ll go out in joy, you’ll be led into a whole and complete life.  The mountains and hills will lead the parade, bursting with song.  All the trees of the forest will join the procession, exuberant with applause.  No more thistles, but giant sequoias, no more thornbushes, but stately pines— Monuments to me, to God, living and lasting evidence of God.”  Isaiah 55:8-13 The Message

Happy Wednesday.

4 Comments

  1. Brea Freeman says:

    Love this post. So excited to watch your beautiful family grow and change. So thankful to have your family in our life!

  2. Those scriptures are so powerful and now you’ve got me all excited! I hope you will share tidbits of the exciting things God is doing in your family. It is so exciting to watch your journey!

  3. Tiffany says:

    This really resonated with me. We spent two years chasing a dream we thought surely God had given to us. Every door closed, our hearts were confused and broken, but here we are, Surrendering it all to God and daring to dream again.

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