Held

First of all I want to thank everyone who has been praying for us over the past couple of days. We have felt every single prayer that has been made! It has been incredible to see how the Holy Spirit has worked within us.

There has been a song that has resounded in my mind this week, which will explain the title of this post. It is a song by Natalie Grant called Held. There are portions of that song that are exactly my heart. Here is the portion of the song that has stuck out to me...
"This is what it means to be held....this is what it means to be loved and to know that the promise was when everything failed, we'd be HELD".

That is exactly what it has felt like for us! On Sunday I kept expressing to Pete this overwhelming sense of "being upheld". Even though we were at war against emotions that were raging inside of us, we felt the hand of God upholding us every minute of every day.

We spent a majority of past few weeks just being with each other. We found that brought us the most comfort. We spent a lot of time talking and reflecting. You know when you marry your spouse, you express a love for them that is real and deep and you question "How can I feel this love any deeper"? This is one of those undesirable times that has deepened that love that we thought was unmeasurable at the time. As we celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary, I reflected on the man that God has so graciously blessed me with and I can't imagine my life with anyone else. God knew what he was doing and knew exactly what I needed in life when he joined our hearts together!

As we look forward we still have a lot to think about. We are trying to be open to all measures. We want to be obedient to God's will for us. We want to be receptive what it is that He would call us to do. We are tired of waiting and don't anticipate waiting months to make that decision, either. We meet with our Dr. on Tuesday and hope to have some things made clear.

Please continue to pray for us in this time! We are overwhelmed with the decision that we will have to make in the weeks to come. Please pray that we would recieve wisdom. Pray that our hearts would be open to God's leading and then that we will be obedient.

Thank you SO MUCH for the kind words, cards, emails, messages, etc...that you all have sent. Our hearts have been encouraged!!
The journey continues.....down drury lane....to be continued...

Romans 12:12
Be JOYful in hope,
PATIENT in affliction,
FAITHful in prayer