Yet To Come

I've been a little more reflective than usual the past month or so. In October we celebrated 3 months with Shiloh, her first birthday, the birth of our nephew Henry, and what would have been Eliana's 9th birthday all in one week. I also happened to be scrapbooking that week and what better activity to reflect on.

This is a page I created that week. Something I've wanted to scrapbook for a long time...

(Journaling: There is a tall tree next to Elie's grave. It serves as a marker so we always walk to the right place. After Elie's funeral the back hoe made a huge gash in the tree. I remember being so upset that the tree might die and need to be cut down. But every time we visit it has healed a little more. What once was a raw scar has now sealed over and blended into the rest of the tree. That tree is a great picture of what God has done in our lives too. Although the hurt and sadness sometimes rise to the surface, the rawness is gone. It's healed over and the beautiful memories remain.)

All of this reflection has served to remind me how greatly we are blessed by God! He has given us so much more than we can ask or imagine and I want to be more thankful everyday--not just at Thanksgiving. So today, as I'm thankful for the sleeping baby in the other room and the husband and big kids starting a fire outside, and the one dancing in heaven...I am most thankful for a God who loves me and is enduringly faithful to me. He has blessed me with so many things- some I hold now, some I no longer have, and many, many yet to come...and I pray this coming year I will learn to be more faithful to Him.