Friends–
Whew..
Hanging my head almost in shame here…
or laughing.. ha.. because I knew I would not do a good job of blogging everyday for 31 days. I had oh so good intentions.. but what WAS I not thinking.
October was a crazy amazing busy month leading to a crazy amazing busy November.
In four weeks I was in Nepal, India, my town, Gatlingburg, Austin Texas and South Georgia.
And since August I have spoken every weekend until last week. .(GLORY) That’s what living out my dream has looked like of Coming Alive ministries.
But I have failed at blogging.. and I am sorry.
Lol.. so I don’t come to you as one of those pintrest make everything from scratch kind of perfect people.
I have been a blogging failure… lol.. just like when I look at those crafty things on pintrest, try to make them.. and well they look more like
Lol I did not take that nor attempt that I found on internet.. but it so looks like something that would happen to me
so here I am a 31 day blogging failure..
But I am back
Back to say Thank you
Thank you for sticking with me..
Thank you for praying our family through this year.
Thanks for coming alive with me.
How was your thanksgiving? Ours was so stinking fun.
I ate so stinking much!!
My miracle dad made the best turkey ever. He had been in the hospital just last week. Again.. another miracle. He almost lost His leg due to infection that came from a little incident running into a log. But God. God worked another miracle and Healed him .. AGAIN!
There was lots of glory shouting around our Thanksgiving table..
sorry mom could not get you in there.. but just so you know she was there..
Isn’t she beautiful.
Anyways.. if it had not been for God’s miraculous interventions in our families lives.. this year.. it would have just been my mom and me around the table. My dad would not have survived His leukemia and my sister and her family would not have survived their accident.
Sobering huh.
Talk about your biggest fears.
This year some of my biggest fears (well most of my biggest fears) have happened.
The dreaded phone calls of ambulances on the way to the hospital with your family members in them..
The hospitals knowing your family by name.
The wondering.. the what if’s.
The nights when you wonder what God is doing.
The taking risks and then what you fear happening happening
But wow.
Wow.
The James 1 promise that has proved true.
I give thanks for that.
SO I am giving thanks ..
for the fact that fear is not failure
faith is not absence of fear.
But faith is taking your fears and laying them at the feet of the Father
And that Faith is believing in darkness what God has shown you in the light.
and that one that thing that has not failed..
is Jesus.
He is everything He promised.
And He gives JOY
Unspeakable joy– that is only a gift from him.
Wow