Wednesday Wonder

The most amazing site and sound greeted me this morning as I pulled out of my street, this wonderful sunrise and this song "Blessed Be Your Name" by Matt Redman on the radio. What a wonderful start to the day :-) I'm so glad I had my camera



Health/ Baby Update: This morning's monthly b12 shot gave me a much needed boost after the fatigue of the last week. I'm still getting used to the bigger needle and syringe. I do have more energy this morning, nausea is still there. Either way I need to make an appointment for the dr, to see why I'm still sick to my stomach and the adoption agency requires a release from my dr to ensure we can physically provide and care for a child as part of the adoption paperwork. The paperwork is very personal/ private process with lots of of hypotheticals due to it being a Christian agency. How would we disciplin a child? How do we plan to instill spiritual values and biblical knowledge in our children? (click on biblical knowledge, I must watch this video twice a week, love it!!) I can only pray, God's word is so much a part of our lives that our children will be able do something like this. What are out hopes, dreams, goals and general aspirations for our children? This and many more issues we'll need to sit and pray about, get intentional. Somehow I don't think we'd be articulating these ideas if we weren't going through this.

I'm a huge book reader, have been my whole life... here are my current reads and I highly recommend both :-) I don't find many books I can't get something out of. I enjoy taking what is applicable, running it through scripture and tossing the rest.

The first book is Captivating by John & Stasi Elderedge from a Christian women's perspective. I started attending a bible study on this book every other Monday due to how much I have enjoyed this book. This book reaches those spots in a woman's soul when " we feel like we as women are sometimes both too much and not enough". The image of what a Godly woman is at times daunting, Proverbs 31 even refers to the candle not going out at night, well when do we sleep? The book also addresses what true strength and Godly feminity look like. How as women we either become too passive or too aggressive and neither is the reflection that God created us to be of Him. A mixture of tenderness, vulnerability and courageousness. How satan attacks us and how our family of origin wounds plays a part in our awareness of who we are as daughters of the King.


Second book is one Billy and I are working on together called Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs. Our goal is to sit down and discuss a portion every week. I have to say this has been the most humbling book for me to read. Women tend to think we have the market cornered on relationships cause we are built to love and that's what we need. This book in the most honest and yet reverent way spoke to respect, and how much of a core need that is in men and what that looks like. I grew up in a mostly all girl house and am very comfortable around other women. Some of the same ways I relate to my best gal pals wounds/ offends/ deflates/ disrespects my husband. I did plenty of looking at Billy saying... really? Is that so? Time and again, he'd nod or simply say yes. I have prayed often in the last 6 months to apply these principles, to be able to show my respect for my wonderful husband. I do admire his ethics, his morals, leadership, how he provides for us as a family and leads us back to Christ in all things. His prayerful heart is one of the first thing I admired about him even those first couple of years before we were ever interested in each other. It spoke to me that I shouldn't do this just so that Billy will give me the love I need, but out of obedience to Christ as this is my calling in my role as a wife.

That's all for today, .. break over, time to get back to work.