You have to settle with the past, engage the present and believe in the future.
—Heard this in a movie at the gym the other day and thought it was somewhat profound.
My hubs and I at a friend’s wedding. We celebrated a few days later our 8th anniversary. I am so humbled and amazed to be married to a man who strives for excellence and who does so much for me and for our kids. It is amazing to me the journey God has brought us on so far and I am SO looking forward to the next adventure with him.
New International Version (©1984)
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.
I am meditating on this verse today. In the last few weeks of our summer, our family has had quite the roller coaster. We’ve had soccer, family days, Russ in his master’s program, a short 3 day vacation, our son’s 3rd birthday, back to school shopping, etc. Etc. Today, though we have added two more things to our roller coaster: our daughters kindergarten orientation and a memorial for a toddler from our church family. It has been a rough week for many people close to us, and today-in the midst of the sorrow for Rubi, the anxiety and excitement for my little girl and all the emotions that seems to be between, I am choosing today to focus on this verse.
It seems my life this last month could best be described as “a little bit of crazy”. Our family has been running around going to the movies, swimming, playing in the yard, and even a trip to Disney and SoCal beaches thrown in. In the midst of it all I have this little countdown in my head to when our family life will change forever-when my little girl goes to Kindergarten. We are a family that is truly on the go all the time-I’ve never been a homebody and neither of my kids are either. Because of this, the structure of a traditional school year will be a huge adjustment for us and I am doing my best to soak up every moment of this summer.
Overwhelmed
This week has left me feeling a bit overwhelmed. We have company coming in, my daughter is graduating preschool, and yesterday I sang in church for the first time in about a year. While there are about a hundred reasons why each of these overwhelm me, I started humming a song to myself tonite that my hubby and I used to do when we led worship once upon a time-the name of the song is ‘overwhelmed’. Fitting, right? Here are some of the words:
“I am nothing yet you bid me come to you, oh Lord Almighty. As I come I’m overwhelmed with you. Humbly now I break the silence as I’m standing in your presence, I’m so wretched, overwhelmed with you.
Your blood of redemption is covering my shame, your voice that shaped the heavens is whispering my name. And as you catch my tears with your nail scarred hands, I’m overwhelmed.”
I’m not sure who wrote it, or why it came into my head-but in the midst of this week, I want to focus on Jesus. I want to allow Him to overwhelm me.
