Whats Most Important In Your Life?

Well, like usual its been awhile since my last post. I often get the question “So, any news about adoption?” the answer to that would be no. As I’ve mentioned before we’ll get a call when a mom has picked us, and we won’t hear anything until then or if it gets to the point where we’ve been available for a year and still haven't been picked then we’ll have to re-new some paper work and pay more fees but that's about it.

Since my last post, not a whole lot has changed in our lives. We are just trying our very best to enjoy this time in our lives, even if for the most part we wish our lives were different. For now, I'm enjoying that we can do whatever we want with out children holding us back, and sleep! I know one of these days sleep will be hard to find! We were very lucky to invite another niece into our family, so that is so exciting but also kinda hard because this is a member of the family that will never meet Deklyn here on earth. I know she will know who Deklyn is and that makes me happy, but it still hurts to know they won’t grow up and play together.

Every single morning I have to make a choice, I  have to choose if I will let my past make me upset that day or I can choose to think about all the wonderful things in my life and choose to be happy. I don’t always make the choice I should, actually often I don’t.

There are a few things that I think about to try and keep my attitude in the right place, and maybe you’ll find that these will help you too:

1) Even though my life may not be exactly the way I would want it, I still have so much to be happy about.

2) When I choose to forget about myself and my problems and focus on others and helping others I find I just feel so much better and often the things that I was upset about don’t seem so big anymore.

3) Everyone goes through bad times in their life, I once heard someone say “If you haven’t ran into hard times yet just live a little longer” and I think that so true. But it helps to know that I am not the only one struggling and we are just so lucky to have such an amazing God that cares so much for us and is with us every single step of the way.

And here is the big one, at least for me!

4) What really is important? Let that sink in… Really…. Deep inside your heart, what is most important to you?  For me this can change from day to day… but I try my best to make God the most important thing in my life. So what would my life look like if God is the most important thing? The way I look at it is this, when I get to heaven will God ask me “How many kids did you have?” or “Did you get everything you wanted on earth?” I really don’t think any of those things will matter at all when we get to heaven. But I will have to be accountable for what I did while I was here, and I hope with all that I am that I get to hear “Well Done”. So to accomplish that I need to listen to God, obey him and love others with all that I am. Its not easy, but day by day I am trying my best to live in a way that is most pleasing to God and maybe one of these days we will be blessed with another child, but I am trying my best not to focus on that but focus on God and what I can do for him during this short time that I am here.

I hope this short post has encouraged and challenged you in some way!
Thank you to all of you have continued to pray for us and support us. It means so much!