a {gift} for our children

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Embrace this God-life.

Really embrace it,

and nothing will be too much for you...

That's why I urge you

to pray for absolutely everything,

ranging from small to large.

Include everything

as you embrace this God-life,

and you'll get God's everything.

{Mark 11:22-24}

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There have been countless blessings we have received in the midst of waiting for our children to join our family.  By God's amazing infinite grace, our marriage has weathered some crazy storms (five years and counting of infertilty, losing our business/retirement/savings/home/friends/"everything", me working a full-time job and four part-time jobs right now, Rodney building our new real estate business and working 80 hours a week right now...)... yet, there is a joy, a peace, a contentment that permeates us. 

We had/have so much help in the love of family and true friends.  We learned/are learning how essential it is to always always give, even when it feels like we have "nothing", because there's always someone else who has "less".  But, mostly, above everything, we have a deeper acceptance and appreciation of the gift God has given us in each other.  It is this, this respect and admiration of one another, that is truly a gift for our children.

Being married to such a generous, hard-working, Godly man is the honor of my life. I strive to be his 'Proverbs 31' woman, but he's my 'Proverbs 1-30' man ~ full of integrity, honor, wisdom, humor, kindness, generosity, seeking wise counsel, and a heart that desires to serve God above all else ....

♥ I am blessed beyond measure ♥

"Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling...

Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct from "being in love" — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God...

"Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it."

~C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

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