Goodbye and Hello

Christmas 2024

 

Us trying to be normal, which we aren't.  Noah is just acting out what his shirt says! 😂

                                                       Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025

 God has been so incredibly faithful the last weeks.  Husband is recovering well and we just thank God for His constant care and love over our family during this particularly difficult season.  He is for us and wow, have we ever experienced His daily bread faithfulness over and over and over again the last few weeks.  Thank you to all who have prayed so faithfully for us.  For those who have met untold practical needs from lunch at the hospital on surgery day, to spending the day with our children, to meals, to grocery money, to job leads, to texts and phone calls...you know who you are and we are grateful beyond description for each of you.  

As I reflect on 2024, I am overwhelmingly grateful the good Lord doesn't allow us to see the future.  I am GLAD I could not see what 2024 held for us or the situtation we would be in as the clock hit midnight and brought in 2025.  How grateful I am for unaswered prayers or when the answer was no for our protection and provision.  How grateful I am for the many "yeses" our sovereign Lord allowed for us the last 12 months that brough so much joy to our hearts: my children got to hug both their grandmas this year, my husband was able to celebrate his parents 50th wedding anniversary with them, I was able to spend an entire month up North with a great portion of my immediate family, my little brother got engaged, we sat for 12 wonderful months under strong, Biblical teaching of God's Word with our church family, a dear cousin moved to our city, new friends who have enriched my life so much (thank you especially Amanda, Marie, Leslie & Shannon) wow, the list goes on and and on and on.

As we enter 2025, I am so grateful a)I can't see the year ahead and b)we can look back on the last year and trace the Hand of God in our lives and home.  I can and will TRUST He will be the same sovereign, provisional, present, loving God He was last year as we move into a new year, full of new opportunities and with blessing, new responsibilities.  To whom much is given, much is required.  I feel the responsibility to not hoard all He has done in my family but to pass on His blessing to others and most of all, share about the God who cares so well for His people.  

May this year be one in which you taste ever more of the Lord and His goodness in your life.  That does not mean an easy road, but a journey in which you press ever more into Him.  In which you watch Him use whatever means He chooses to bring His glory about in your life and are truly okay with His sovereign will in your life.  That is what I pray for myself and my family.  

                                         Much love from our family to yours in 2025!