Change

A friend of mine on facebook posted a comment made by Jentezen Franklin:

A sure sign that God is doing something in your life is that CHANGE is involved! When God calls you to do something, you have to be willing to go someplace new. Responding to God is going to mean CHANGE! -Jentezen Franklin

I believe it! For those of you who may be awaiting a referral for adoption, get ready for things to change! Most often for the better. We have had the pleasure of Having Jericho in our family for a year now and wouldn't change a thing! He is really a sweet boy and on the whole a very good little boy. I am so very thankful for God entrusting us with his life and his upbringing. We pray that we will raise him in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord.

Another change in the last year and a half has been the addition of my mother into our household. She is also a great blessing. She has been very sick. She broke her hip a year ago this past Christmas and at the same time found out that she had Ovarian cancer. She came a long way in 2009. She had chemo treatments then a surgery and now, in 2010, a second time around with chemo. She has decided to forgo the chemo treatments at this time and let the cancer take its course. She is a woman who possesses great strength in quietness. She has never complained or been negative in this long and very hard trial for her. I pray I will gain strength from her and learn to be cheerful and pleasant in the least to the greatest of the trials that I go through. May I learn grace from her example and the integrity to apply it to every situation that I encounter.

Change! I have learned that in whatever state I am in therewith to be content. If we are troubled on every side, we find that we are not distressed; we may be perplexed, but not in despair;

And for my Mom: "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

2 Cor. 4:17-18