Life is funny…

It’s funny how God works in your life. There is a great song that we sing at church, “Blessed be the Name of the Lord”. The song speaks of praising God in the good and bad. I remember it was one of my dad’s favorites and when I sing it I imagine he’s singing along, but with the Lord. Cool thought for sure. For the past three years I have literally had little or no control in what happens in my life. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Through rough circumstances and great ones, God has proven Himself faithful over and over. In fact, He has blessed my family in ways I couldn’t have even imagined. We have all new family room furniture that we didn’t pay for. We didn’t steal it, it was a gift. This is just one of the many, many ways He has showered us. So, you might imagine what a great comfort that is to me, especially finding out recently that I am expecting another baby. Some of you that have known me awhile might say, “doesn’t that make 7 pregnancies??”. Yep, sure does. We have 3 live babies and three that are with Jesus already. This one is our unexpected blessing. As I told Marck, I was worried that he’d freak, or cry or go get a second job. If you have seen the way our kids eat, you’d understand. But he didn’t. He just said,” wow! Ok, this is a blessing! How great!”. I love his excitement. At the time all I could think of was we gave away every baby item we don’t need anymore, and that I am about to embark on yet another weight gaining binge. Super. The weight comes off easy enough, that shouldn’t bother me. Still, my waist line will be expanding.
We told our kiddos last night and they seemed ok at first. Then Zion got particularly weepy. Actually both the older ones did, for various reasons. After staying up way past bedtime to discuss and talk about how great it will be, they seemed at peace. For now.
As I came downstairs after our talk, I realized, life IS going to be different. Life was very different after each addition we’ve had. In the end, it has been amazing and I wouldn’t trade any single moment of it. As the song says, “my heart will chose to say, blessed be Your name”. I am choosing to bless God, and thank Him for unannounced miracles. You know I also love getting wisdom from movies, very theological. In the immortal words of Mrs. Gump, “ life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” Well, she left out something. We don’t know, but I know the One who does, and I trust Him fully and completely.