Our church recently started a campaign called Love.Loud. It's all about showing God's love through charity. Our LifeGroup class has chosen to help with a place called Alice House. It's a home for orphaned children. They need mentoring and everyday items that kids with parents take for granted, like a left-handed baseball glove. I am really looking forward to getting started with these kids. It's opening my heart to pray for where I want my life to go. Like many people, I sort of feel lost sometimes. I love my kids and am so very very thankful that I get to stay home with them, but sometimes I wonder if there is a bigger contribution that I should be making in this life. I've decided that I am going to pray in earnest about this and be totally open to where God wants me to be and what He wants me to be doing.
I feel abundantly blessed to have two healthy, thriving children. My heart has been so heavy lately with hearing of losses from parents: a 4 year old last year who succumbed to cancer and, most recently, an infant who died only 7 hours after birth due to a birth defect that they knew about for 20 weeks. It makes me so sad to hear of these precious children's lives being lost and reminds me of how close we came to having a similar situation with Livee. This morning in our LifeGroup class, one of our members told us that her 20 week gestation baby boy has not 1, but 3, heart defects. I'm not writing this to bring you down, but to remind you of how fragile we are in this life, and to Love out Loud. Please remember this special family in your prayers too. I have hope for them, because I know our God can work miracles.
"For it was You who formed my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalm 139: 13-14
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I will be praying for this family and for you! Now I'm going to go hug A.J.
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