Life With Us...

When I wake in the morning, it will be Thanksgiving Day. This year has been crazy unprecedented in so many ways, but in that chaos, I have so much to be thankful for (details of which I am saving for my Christmas letter ☺). As with the last four years, I have have seen the hand of God orchestrating my every step. It is so cool to see Him active in my world, providing, protecting, and preparing us for the things we cannot yet see. Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Christmas season (at least in our family), and this year I am so thankful for the family God has placed me into. Not only because I finally have a place I feel like I belong, I fit, but because of the mutual support and encouragement we are to each other.  I was thinking about my life yesterday. Where it's gone, what I've done, and how it has gone in many circles. Today I have a job that, most days feels more like ministry than work, I have the ability to visit the parents almost every day (most days twice, if only ...

Every year around Easter I remember that my grandpa Hank died on Easter Sunday. My grandmother, who never married him, but allowed him to be a big part of our lives, declared," Leave it to Hank to do something so dramatic as to die on Easter!" I never have decided if that was her way of faulting him for the timing, or if she really saw an irony in his dying on the day we celebrate the resurrection.  Doesn't really matter. This year I remembered again, but couldn't remember the actual date, because Easter is different every year.  I don't know why it mattered, and I guess it didn't a whole lot, because I have a place to look, and didn't. LoL. Until tonight.  While making banana bread, I noticed a memorial magnet my mother made and sent to me after he died. It has a pictue of me and him (he was one of my favorites... I had a surplus of grandparents, so blessed). I took a moment and straightened it. It is stuck to our washer/dryer, and gets titled occasionall...