Wow...it has been a really long time since I have been able to post a blog! I guess managing a home, taking care of 4 kids, homeschooling, and just being a missionaries wife is a full-full time job :{) Though I don't want to complain for I have really enjoyed it (most days..lol). God's grace is sufficent!
Just to catch you up...we have moved from our mountain home to a much smaller abode. The home we are living in now is less than half the size home we were living in, so it is much more cramped in here. But I believe it is preparing us for the field. For I know that the homes and apartments in Ukraine are very small. This home also brings back a lot of memory's. This home first belonged to my grandparents. I remember coming here as a kid, and those long drive's from Fayetteville every Christmas Eve. My Grandma alway made her country sytled steak....yum. And I would get to see all my cousins I havn't seen for a whole year. Moving ahead....my mom, dad, brother, and I lived in this house when we moved back from Germany. We only lived here for 3 months till mom and dad bought the house I spent most of my youth in. Further ahead....Brian and I lived here for the first 3 years of our marriage and Briana was born while we lived here. Once again I find myself living in this little 900 sq.ft. home....it's been a true blessing not to have to pay rent though!!!! Lots of memory's floating around in this little house :{)
Now on to new stuff.... the New year...it always reminds me of new beginings...as my post on facebook said "The thing I love most about New Years is new begingings. It's almost like having your proverbial slate wiped clean...to escape from the hauntings of failures from the past year and to move forward. For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. Proverbs 24:16". I'm the "perfectionist" type, and so if my new year doesn't start out just right...the rest of my year is determined to be a flop. But then I remember that even everyday is a new begining...Lamentations 3:22-23 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. So I am determinded to live everyday like it's a new start!
Just to catch you up...we have moved from our mountain home to a much smaller abode. The home we are living in now is less than half the size home we were living in, so it is much more cramped in here. But I believe it is preparing us for the field. For I know that the homes and apartments in Ukraine are very small. This home also brings back a lot of memory's. This home first belonged to my grandparents. I remember coming here as a kid, and those long drive's from Fayetteville every Christmas Eve. My Grandma alway made her country sytled steak....yum. And I would get to see all my cousins I havn't seen for a whole year. Moving ahead....my mom, dad, brother, and I lived in this house when we moved back from Germany. We only lived here for 3 months till mom and dad bought the house I spent most of my youth in. Further ahead....Brian and I lived here for the first 3 years of our marriage and Briana was born while we lived here. Once again I find myself living in this little 900 sq.ft. home....it's been a true blessing not to have to pay rent though!!!! Lots of memory's floating around in this little house :{)
Now on to new stuff.... the New year...it always reminds me of new beginings...as my post on facebook said "The thing I love most about New Years is new begingings. It's almost like having your proverbial slate wiped clean...to escape from the hauntings of failures from the past year and to move forward. For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. Proverbs 24:16". I'm the "perfectionist" type, and so if my new year doesn't start out just right...the rest of my year is determined to be a flop. But then I remember that even everyday is a new begining...Lamentations 3:22-23 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. So I am determinded to live everyday like it's a new start!
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