Life is Good

so very good. Praise God!

Someone visited our house a few weeks ago, and casually made a reference to our life (what she was looking at as we were sitting out in our backyard on a beautiful Sunday morning) as a unicorn.

So I have been pondering that.

I think she meant the peaceful, loving, two parent family, financially stable, one parent stays home with the happy children, a present and involved father, friendly dog running around, house in the 'burbs with plenty of food in the fridge and two cars in the garage, kind of lifestyle.

The life that everyone wants, but most people will never have.

It sure hasn't always felt so awesome. And if you have read this blog for a while, you know we have had a rough road at times. And I haven't even shared it all. And I won't. :-)  Off the top of my head: since we have been married we have lost two fathers, we have lost seven babies, Jason was in a shooting at work, and we have been faced with the possibility of breast cancer.

Which is not even what other people have to face. We have never been homeless. We have never been in the middle of scary medical life-saving treatments. We have never been hungry. Our house never burned down and we haven't been in horrible accidents.

Praise God! His protection has been on our family all the time...

I do not take this for granted.

Just for today it feels like we have arrived. Yes, we are the unicorn. And it's not because everything and every moment is perfect and happy and wonderful. It is because I rest in the knowledge and peace that my Father in Heaven is always there caring for me and loving me.

So even if tomorrow things feel like they are falling apart, even if there is some terrible accident, or if there is a scary diagnosis, or we are facing something big and scary, I know that we are always in our Lord's hands.

Even when I walk

through the darkest valley,

I will not be afraid,

for you are close beside me.

Your rod and your staff

protect and comfort me.

Psalm 23:4

There is truly an incredible calm... an incredible peace in knowing this.

God's heart breaks over so many things in the world. I will live to honor and glorify Him. I want to make my Father proud.

I want to make Him smile.

(((hugs))),
chris

You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose
thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3