Return to Posting

I am ashamed when I looked at the date of my lasting posting. We have had so many wonderful moments this year, but also some very difficult ones. I was afraid if I started blogging again, my postings would be negative and full of self misery, not very apt for a blog entitled "Living a Blessed Life." You can be thankful I knew my limitations!

We have been through the fire these last 12 months - health, work, church, finances and our precious children and the things impacting their lives. But God has been faithful to Brian and I - so much beyond that which we deserve. He has held our hearts throughout the rough times this year, wiped our tears and wrapped us in His love . . . all the while gently reminding us that He is in control and that He will never leave us. It has been a learning experience this year, a testing of our faith, a refinement of our lives. Even though we are still not through the fire, we can see more clearly His promises and how they are impacting our lives (and His Promises are always Good - that was a lesson relearned - relearned through our path this year with a little help from a Beth Moore study I was blessed to have been a part of).

I don't want the entire year to be absent - as I said so many wonderful things happened this year! I want to share those, so some of my postings will date back a while. But I also want to share some of the fire and refining we have been through - I will try to share more the lessons learned than the fire that prompted them - I promise!