Questions about suffering....

So as many of you know the Lord has been brining me through some of the deepest suffering of my young life in loosing my mom. It has been 9 months now, when most days it seems as though it were yesterday. There are many details that go into her and I story that I will not go into right now, but like most mother and daughter relationships she was my best friend. She knew me unlike any other and some days are excruciating not having her here; although the Lord is healing my heart little by little. This past week I received an e-mail from my sister in law sending me to a link of a blog that she follows. This blogger and his wife have been though the unthinkable of loosing an infant child to a terrible disease. He shares in his blog a link to a sermon entitled Questions about Suffering by Tim Keller.

The first few months when I was so angry at God for taking her I scoured the internet and books, hoping and praying for something to make sense of my hurt. I came up empty time and time again. I began to learn that the Lord was wanting me to turn to Him to make sense of my life and deep pain. It has been a slow process (one that will never be complete), but the words that Pastor Keller speak in this sermon has probably been one of the most helpful things that I have heard about suffering thus far.

I heard a pastor say once that we are all in one of three places, getting ready to head into a trial, in the middle of a trial, or coming through the valley on the other side of a trial. So as this would be applicable to all, I highly encourage you to take 30 minutes of your time and listen to the word this man has to say.  I pray the Lord will use it in your life as he has in mine.

Questions about Suffering

It's been a while....

Hey all!! So, I'm a slacker and I always have good intentions to blog weekly but they never seem to happen...maybe it's just that I don' really have much to say, or in comparison to other blogs I read I just don't lead that fascinating of a life! But here I am again!!

Week 6 of cosmetology school and it has been so fun! We are already practicing on "real" customers verses Kim who has been such a great customer for the first month, but I'm happy to move on to a real head!

Here is Ms. Kim in all her beauty, with painted on lipstick and a little extra eye makeup! I like to have fun with it ya know!!

SO I wonder if this ever happens to anyone else...

Last night I got home from school planning on a fun date night with my hubby. As we are eating the delicious dinner that had been waiting on us all day, (crock pot meals are my fave) Bretter tells me that we were gonna be having a few football guys over for dinner tonight. So I knew that he was planning this and that's why when I made my weekly grocery run, I got all the needed ingredients for ONE tater tot casserole. However, the latest was that it was up to 10 football player now, which means One wasn't gonna cut it. These guys aren't kickers here, we are talking about line backers...those boys can eat! Which meant date night included running back to the store and preparing all the fixins for tonight's dinner! Which consisted of :

TWO tater tot casseroles, 

Large batch of mashed potatoes (I know, your thinking exactly what I said, two potato dishes for one meal...but that's what he asked for, so I just went along with it) & Gravy

Green Beans and Carrots

Bread

and cookie cake for dessert (i got a little lazy with the dessert)

Now they are all here, eating happily in the other room and I am sitting in the bed room writing and praying that the Lord will use Brett, this time at our home, and this meal to draw them to Himself.