2008 is great

i would just like to say that i am so glad that 2007 is over. what a horrible year. (well i guess rylan was born and that turned out all right, i really like him) it was just a year of mass stress and frustrations. health issues with all of us. house stuff (which you will always have when you own a home!) and mainly with jon's job situation, and just not knowing what the future holds - at all. and we still don't know.

BUT, i tell ya what, GOD IS FAITHFUL! we did not go without. we always had food to eat. we always had enough money in the bank to pay our bills. our children have clothes to wear and beds to sleep in, a roof over their sweet little heads. we have two cars that run well. God has been telling me all this time that i need to trust in him and he is in control, not me, not jon, not ford, not the economy, not the politicians, he is in control, and all i have to do is trust in him.

last christmas was rough. jon had been laid off, and unemployment takes awhile to kick in. we had found out the week before jon lost his job we were expecting an unexpected baby. we had a very small X amount of dollars to last us the entire month of december. we could not pay our bills, buy christmas gifts, or even get a christmas tree (jon's mom blessed us with one). but you know what, even then God was faithful to us. our families and church family blessed us in so many ways. and we made it.

i know i don't usually get this personal, but i just feel like i need to give the Lord some much deserved props for looking out for us. even though this year was "rough" for us, it is nothing, absolutely nothing anywhere imaginably close to things that people throughout the entire world suffer through every day. we are just so blessed in so many ways. and i don't have to be scared of the future, because i know, that i know, that God really is in control.

and there were many good things in 2007, and they probably far out weigh the bad. we were even able to put money aside to have a great christmas this year. i cannot begin to count the blessings upon blessings that we have had. it was a year of great growth and perseverance. it's probably our first all at once, doesn't stop coming, hit ya hard, massive dosage of "real" adulthood life. and we will have many more years like it. i'm just glad the year is over and we are starting a new one. i guess when i think about it, i am excited to see more prayers answered.


"But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, for he has been good to me." Psalm 13:5,6