Rainbow

There is indeed a rainbow after the storm. As always, grateful that we are able to pass through, it was rough, tough and we were wounded and the scar will always be there but it's ok, that scar is so beautiful! It reminds me of God's faithfulness and grace.

Praying 2018 will be way better than 2017. All the good and beautiful things will come, more happy memories and abundance of love and blessings. Wishing it for all of you too!!

I so agree :)

God is faithful

My facebook status last night as we made the first payment to the lot I've been praying for.

"Stepping forward to the fulfillment of one of our many big dreams! God is faithful."

So many major decisions were made in our lives this month (as husband and wife) and I admit sometimes I'm scared and I get nervous but I know our faith in the Lord (that He holds our future) will take away all the doubts.

We should have started earlier but God's timing is always perfect. 

I'm one happy wife today :) 

 

Faith and Bible Prophecy

For three Sundays of January, our Pastor preached about “Faith” , of course not forgetting to tell the story of men in the bible whose faith in the Lord is extra ordinary. Like Abraham who had faith in the Lord who promised him when he is already 70 years old that he’ll be the father of all nations and that his sons and daughters will be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I believe we should all have faith like that. Believing the things that we have yet to see and knowing in our heart that it will happen someday.
And he also mentioned persons not in the bible but had faith determination to finish and be succesfull in what they do. And I want that “faith determination” too.
Someday soon our dream will come true.
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Anyways, if you are a christian and is looking for some good reading materials, or you may want to read about Bible Prophecy, bobfraleychristianlifeoutreach.com has many titles available, I think his Salt and Light book is very interesting as it is design for equipping the Christians on the last days, they also have “The day that changed America” which I believe not only Christian America should read.
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But right now, I am also looking for some DVBS materials that we could use for the kids this summer and I need also training materials for the new Sunday School teachers we will train next month.

Life's exit signs

How I wish we could see the exit signs in our life immediately when we are in trouble and so we could just get out from the mess we are in. Or don’t you wish you know where exactly the EXIT SIGNS when you sense you’re gonna be in tough phase in your life? How we wish life is that easy, but I know it is not.

I’ve been too many tough times and most of the time I find my self really at lost and do not know where to go but you know what? I always manage to get out of it, not to my sole credit but of course it is because of the help I get from above.

You know you yourself don’t have to see the exit signs when you are in hard times but if you will let Him, God will show you the way out, He will guide you in every step until you finally find your self free from that stage. We just need to completely trust Him, surrender to Him and know that He is in control of our every situation.

So next time you find your self in tough times like I do now, do not try so hard to look for the exit sign but ask God to lead you out and always remember the lesson you have learned along the way.

Have a nice day everyone!

The Faith Dress

I was deeply touched and encouraged by this story of living by faith. A faith dress. Of course it was not the dress but it's the faith of this lady that God was truly pleased and HE honored it.

For those who are TTC ladies like me, read on and be encourage too.
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8 years ago, it started. My Egg #2 had recently turned 2 and the desire started for another baby….that GIRL baby. But Mike said “wait”. Gave no timeframe, just wait. Any of you ladies know, THAT is not easy when you WANT another baby!

But I waited.

In February the following year, I went on ladies retreat to the Shopper-Lovers DREAM place: Branson and there in the Outlet store of The Children’s Place was the most GORGEOUS dress I had ever seen. I wanted this dress SO badly! I just HAD to have it…..who was with me in the store that would SEE me buy this dress and think I’ve completely lost my mind? I’ll buy it in secret….and hide it…..no one will ever know….

I bought the dress and had to get the matching shoes as well, and then dutifully hid my guilty purchase from my roommates and all the other ladies on the retreat. I mean, afterall, it would look INSANE for me to be buying a DRESS for a girl I do not even HAVE! People would think I had LOST my mind!

I come home and I hang this dress in what would be the nursery if I did have another baby, and that baby just so happened to be a girl. And my sweet loving husband thought I had gone insane. He actually said those very words to me more times than I can count.

And that’s where it started, I started BUYING girl clothes. I was obsessed! Garage sales mostly, nothing else was new other than that perfect velvet dress. But I had BOXES of girl clothes!

And as life is so FUN to do, our life transitioned through several moves in and out of our house, to the Children’s home, back home again….and after everything settled back down and we were back into our house, I took the dress back out again and hung it up dutifully back up into Mike’s office what would be the nursery. Everytime I went into that room or passed that room for any reason, I would pray: “Thank you Lord for giving me a sweet baby girl to fill this dress.” Sometimes the prayer would be long and the tears would flow, but life was busy, so a lot of times, the prayer was just simple, “Thank you Lord for giving me a sweet baby girl to fill this dress.”

And then the last move out of our house into our NEW house, Mike decided he was just TIRED of carting around these boxes and boxes and BOXES of baby GIRL clothes and insisted I get rid of them. I would LOVE to say I was the sweet, dutiful wife. I’d LOVE to say that I didn’t bawl like a big baby too. But I’d be lying. I did give ALL those clothes away to someone who needed them and I DID cry like a big baby. It was the death of a dream. I also prayed over those boxes, “Lord, I’m sowing a seed of FAITH to have my baby girl.” But oh YES, I kept that original red velvet dress.

And in the new house, what WOULD be the nursery was decorated with the beautiful red velvet dress hanging on the wall where everyone could see it when they passed by the room. And every morning I’d pass it and thank God for the baby girl to fill that beautiful dress. And every evening I would thank God for that baby girl to fill that beautiful dress. Friends and family (except my Momma of course) teased me mercilessly over this dress, but I was undeterred, I prayed all the time over this Faith Dress. I was the mother of 2 very handsome boys who prayed over a dress.

But obviously, you know the end of this story: Egg #3, born 7 years after Egg #2 and 10 years after #1, was indeed a girl. And she is gorgeous and PERFECT and everything girlie.

I could not be more thankful to a God that listened to the desperate cries from a crazy woman who wanted a daughter so badly! I thank Him all the time for His faithfulness, and yes, I still cry in the baby girl aisles of stores. They are THANKFUL, GRATEFUL tears of joy that I serve a God that has compassion on crazy women!

And I still have that Faith Dress even though it’s long outgrown. I will hang onto it as a symbol of God’s faithfulness to me. And who knows, my next desire is another baby girl to wear it, but one adopted, maybe from China or even Mexico….who knows….

But if you see that dress hanging in my house, just start the praying after you stop the laughing. ;)

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Dana of "from Chaos to Grace".

Visit her site to take a look of that red velvet dress. :)