Endless Patience

Hey family!  Happy Friday again.  Another week has flown by.  I have been meaning to blog all week and kept waiting for something "good" to blog about, but then I realized, I just need to keep everyone updated on what is simply going on.  I tend to think I have to have something momentous or funny to write about and not just simply life.  But that is what we have fallen into... life.  And what a crazy, exciting, adventurous life it is.  Things here are great.  God continues to move us and grow us (often in ways we are trying to avoid!) and it has been quite the challenge.  I still struggle with my "we're not getting anything accomplished" idea and then we sit back and start to talk about what is going on or what we have coming up and I realize God has been moving the whole time, but I am just a little slow on the realization.  But isn't that one of God's amazing qualities, His endless patience.  Day in and day out, no matter what we do or don't do or say or don't say, He is waiting constantly for us to seek Him and follow Him.  Even now, I do not read my Bible as often as I should, I do not pray as often as I should, I am not great at being "quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to get angry."  Yet, these are things I am working on everyday with my Daddy God.  He is there when I stumble and take steps away from Him.  He is there to pick me when I fall down, and I cannot tell you how much that assurance helps me everyday in life.  I pray you all would have the confidence to "step out of the boat" in faith knowing your Daddy God is there for you.  He will catch you if you fall, He will lift you up if you sink... what a blessed realization this is!  We love you all and as always thank you for the prayers, love, support, long distance hugs and kisses. 

"But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.  He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life." 
Titus 3:4-7