For everyone's prayers for us dealing with our poor kitty. The girls have handled it pretty well, my son...well I think with him being older had a little more difficult of a time and asked when we could go visit "the stones". I think I am going to end up with some "stones" in my backyard.
I have been thinking a lot about death lately. This has been a year of 3's for me. An uncle died last summer, then a cousin's husband over Christmas, and yesterday another uncle died. They were all different circumstances with different beliefs and I am just so grateful for having a relationship with God. That I know there is more to life than this. My uncle who died yesterday was full of bitterness and anger and hate. He was actually not a nice man at all. But he was family and my mom is grieving and I am sorry for his life. Sorry he couldn't see anything more than how unfair life was and how it treated him poorly. It makes me sad to think he died alone, not knowing the grace of God, the forgiveness of God, what Christ did for us. And it makes me realize as I talk to my brother who is not a Christian, that I need to pray. For some reason it is really hard for me to pray for his salvation or the salvation of my dad. I will admit that I don't have faith that it will happen. I can't even imagine them changing. But my belief doesn't matter. The place I need to start with is on my knees.
So I am going to try to be a better prayer warrior for my family because life can be sooo ugly, but it doesn't have to be. It can be beautiful and full of grace and mercy and compassion and it's sad that they don't see that.
On the flip side of all of this is my beautiful daughter.
Who yesterday prayed with her daddy to accept Jesus into her heart. She has been telling us for a year that she did it privately to herself but yesterday something changed in her heart and she wanted to pray it out loud. I am sad that I wasn't there but so grateful that she was with her dad and took this big step. And I am so grateful to our God who is always faithful to remind us of hope amidst sadness and death.
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As I read this my heart went out to you for the deaths in the family, of remembering those in my own family that I don't remember to pray for, and need to!
Of thinking of Lucy and missing her, such a big part of my life too.
Tears of joy and huge smile of reading about Isabelle (great picture too by the way).
God has a way of bringing such joy in the midst of sadness right when we need it the most.
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