Thankful

Another post in the same day, how funny is that! Never happens, but sometimes there are days where I have so much on my heart & am either feeling so inspired or so encouraged, that I can't help but turn to my blog & make sure I record everything I'm feeling/learning so I can come back to this in the future & remember (um wow, sorry, LONG sentence!)

I know I just posted about true joy & feeling perfectly content when you surrender every little thing to the Lord, but at the same time, there are still days where I feel overwhelmed. Today was one of them. Something happened this morning that I won't share in this post, but it was something that really scared me, something that caused every fiber in my being to pray to God and ask Him to help me just trust Him with the circumstance since I couldn't control a thing. A very popular verse that every Christian school teaches you when you're little, is Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding; in ALL thy ways, acknowledge Him, and He SHALL direct thy paths." It's a promise, but a hard one to live. It's really hard to trust God with things sometimes; but like I wrote in my last post, when you let go and trust God with everything, you get perfect peace & it is the best feeling you can possibly experience ever.

Anyway, the purpose of this second post today is to express how thankful I am that we have a God Who we can even pray to and trust. It's an amazing thing that I can pray to God & I know He is listening, helping me through whatever it is in life, whenever I am feeling scared, overwhelmed, stressed out, angry, worried, or frustrated. Whenever I just get everything off my chest through prayer, asking God to control the situation, my heart changes & I feel at peace knowing whatever happens, will happen for a good reason.

Same thing goes to how thankful I am for my husband. Words can't express how happy I am that I married him. The longer we're married, the more I appreciate him (the second I wrote this sentence, I laughed because it's a "DUH" comment.) Now that we have a kid and one on the way, I find myself relying more on my husband for comfort, for reassurance (like when Lilly is sick & I am worrying), for encouragement, for everything really. We need each other; I need him, and he needs me, and I love it that way. I'm glad God created marriage, because without Rich, I'd go nuts (even though he WAS deployed 7 months for 3 years, haha!)

Sometimes the best, more amazing things in life are the ones money can't buy, "things" like having a real relationship with God, marriage, being a parent, and so much more.