When we’re faced with difficult times everyone always says “Just trust God”. Ummmm OK! Thanks…so helpful. But call me crazy…sometimes I need a little more than that! In the particular season Brook and I are in, it’s really teaching me what that means.
As I think back on my short, amazingly blessed life I find it hard to think of many times where I’ve really had to TRUST with pure, blind faith. Sure there were those times I thought everything was crashing down around me because The Gap didn’t have my size in that certian shirt I HAD to have.
Now I am understanding real trust and real faith.
Do I enjoy it? Ummm not so much. But I wouldn’t trade it.
Would I like to know where we are going to end up and when? You bet! But I’d rather it be in His perfect timing.
Do I get scared and worried? You better believe it. Every single day!
But there is joy in the morning. There is the sweetest man I’ve ever known taking care of me every single day. And we trust in a God who won’t leave us and has BIG plans for us.
“Desperate, I throw myself on you; you are my God!
Hour by hour, I place my days in your hands.”
Psalm 31:14-15a
October 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Please never through your children up in the air like that. You might have a hole in your hands the way it used to be in your glove while playing t-ball.
October 19th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I really can spell. throw. The thought of your child, my grandchild, being thrown in the air made me nervous.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Praying for you guys through this time! I love being able to keep up with you guys through your blog…. especially now that we are so far away.
Love ya!
Shelly
October 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
You used a glove with a hole in it?? No wonder OSU recuited you…
Ahhh but seriously, I will throw your kid up like that just like I did Brook….come to think of it maybe that’s why he bangs his head against the wall!!
October 20th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Happened across your blog. Enjoyed reading about you. I am a fellow blogger in the Fort Worth area. Congrats on being a newly wed. After 24 years, it is still blissful and exciting!
Smiles!
Paige
October 21st, 2008 at 8:42 am
I am not very religious person, in fact I don’t often go to church but I can say 100% that at the end of the day, even if I have done something wrong my faith is still with God and that I trust Him and that He has big plans for me, for us. I know that we face some trials from time to time but I know that this is his way to test our faith in Him. Trust God and you’ll never go wrong.
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 am
Aww kara kay,
I love you so much and seeing your thoughts on paper make things all too real for me, I am praying for you guys every single day, and I know that God has is hand in all of this, I know it!! You guys are going to look back 10 ys from now and remember this time, and think it was easy.. Yes I said easy, I feel like life can be so hard no matter what stage you are at, and I know that the way you handle it, makes all the difference in the world,, stay joyful, I feel like that is the way things get turned around, take your sadness and make it gladness!!. so there you have it my thoughts for the day!!
I love you – mindy