A Most Terrifying, Wonderful Thing

As Cohen's first birthday approaches, the weather changes, pumpkin things slowly overtake our home, and I hang my DIY autumn wreath on the front door, I am reminded of where I was only a short breath of a year ago... big-pregnant with this little kicking, hiccuping, squirming baby... The baby now cruising around on my furniture, pulling pots and pans out of cabinets, bumping his head on anything and everything and playing "ba" (ball) with me every second I'll sit on the floor to roll it back and forth with him.

Every day I fall more and more in love with this little boy... His big hazel-brown eyes, little wisps of dark wavy hair, tiny toes that still curl around my finger like they did when he was just born

All That You Have Not Yet Been

Thank God for being able to see all that you have not yet been. You have had the vision, but you are not yet to the reality of it by any means. It is when we are in the valley, where we prove whether we will be the choice ones, that most of us turn back. We are not quite prepared for the bumps and bruises that must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the vision. We have seen what we are not, and what God wants us to be, but are we willing to be battered into the shape of the vision to be used by God?