LOKING FORWARD

I went to bed last night reflecting on 2013. What an amazing year for our small family! God has really taken our family on quite the journey and as the last few months of 2013 approached, God decided He wasn't done with us. What a comfort that is! Think about that for just a minute....HE is not done with YOU! He never ever lets us out of His sight or out of His heart. YOU ARE ALWAYS IN HIS PLANS! I look back at the times I thought I was alone even when surrounded by His love and His family and I realize I was never alone. Even through the hard times this year He was always there. I know or some of  you are thinking....Of course; well Duh, Amy! I know this too, I've grown up knowing that God is always there but, there are times in the midst of things where I have doubt and am not sure I really comprehend fully that He is with me always.  But, as they say, hindsight......

But, as I awoke this morning things were different for me. I was buzzing! I woke with unusual energy for not going to bed until 1:30am. I am not looking back on what last year brought to us. I am looking forward to the unbelievable future that God has for us! I am fully aware and confident that my God is an awesome God! He loves us all more than the human brain will allow us to comprehend. His grace and mercy and peace and love overflow unto us and this morning I feel it fully! He has sent us a personal invitation to follow Him, to trust in Him and to know Him more closely than ever before! He has not promised us it will be easy or trial free. In fact we know this will be a hard road...that we are walking into a refining process unlike any we have been through as a family so far. But, we fully trust the Lord. My one question for myself is : "How can I not follow Him?" Seriously, How can I not follow the One who has blessed my life in so many ways that I can't even see them all? How can I not place my life into the hands of the One who gave me this life? 

I read a verse this morning... Habakkuk 2:2 : And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readth it. So ladies and gentlemen that is what I am going to try to do. As Joel and I have been trying to figure out how to share the stories of what God is doing; I keep getting told to document it. Ok Lord, I get it....no more knocking me over the head I will listen and try to get it all down. I am not a good writer and I have a terrible time telling stories but, I trust that God will give me the words and even in my mistakes God will tell the stories.

So, as we look forward to the coming year I invite you join us....