May 2011

M+A+Y = BLURRRRR!  That pretty much sums it up.  May was an extremely busy month this year.  It is always crazy with end of school, but this year it took on a whole new dimension for many reasons!  Nonetheless it is over and I have to be honest in saying I am very glad.  I have always been bad about wishing time away, so I really try hard not to wish to get the the next "thing" whatever the "thing" is.  I have learned to try and enjoy the moment/season we are in regardless of how it is going.  I feel like I have gotten alot better at this as I have gotten older...well lets say as my kids have gotten older....I am still holding at 32:)!  Even though May was a huge blur, I find myself looking back on it thankful.  I am SO thankful that in the midst of crazy I was able to see God move in our lives....oh...I am SO grateful that I didn't miss it!  I felt like May had a reoccurring theme that God was using to reiterate things He had previously taught me... May became somewhat of a reteaching moment (which is alittle concerning since that is what we do with our students at school whom we feel have missed important concepts....is that what God was thinking of me:/??).

CHANGE IS INEVITABLE

For someone who does not do well with change, this reoccurring theme is not a favorite:(!  The old saying "all good things must come to an end"....never liked it....never will.  A few years ago I felt like God really worked on my heart in this area.  I finally found peace when one day I felt Him say "it is a season of your life".  Regardless if it is changes in jobs, schedules, houses, clothes, cars, weather, friends or anything else.....I have come to learn that God has placed those people/places/things in our life at that specific time for that specific season.  I think it is difficult because most of the time when the season changes, I am never ready.  I find myself pleading with God "Please-No.  I am comfortable".  And  you know, I think that is exactly the issue....comfortable....not clinging....not clinging to Him for everything.  Though the changes continue to come (and will), I find comfort in the reminder of His words "those people/places/things were for that season".  So, now a new season is upon us and with that there is a hopeful and excited anticipation of how God will choose to move.  What people/places/things will He use in our lives in this new season?!  I am thankful that He loves us SO much that He chooses to continue to move in our lives and develop us (though we truly wish he would deliver us from the painful process of change)....even if it means having to provide multiple "teachable moments" throughout our lives.

Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose". 

**I know it is hard to believe that I actually have a picture-free post.  You must know it is not by choice.  My wonderful Mother's day, May and Memorial Day pictures are at the bottom of my pool....with my Iphone:(!  I took an unexpected by funny fall into the pool one night while pouring in shock....pretty appropriate as that is exactly the word that I would use to describe how I felt when I fell in...fully clothed NIKE's and all!  I would love to say that I jumped in saving a drowning kid, but it really was just a bad case of taking a mis-step and loosing my balance.  Thankfully my sweet English pointer came in after me so I thought ....until he swam right by me for a drink of water:/?!  So lesson learned....don't use the Iphone for all pics of a single event, and if you do....make sure you back them up every night on the computer:(!**