Celebrating Seven!
June 12, 2014
“Happy Birthday Claire,” I whisper to her as she wakes to greet her seventh year of living the miracle that is her life. She smiles immediately and says “Am I seven?” And so begins her happy day of birth.
But the truth is, I don’t celebrate this day. Birth day is a bitter sweet memory.On that day I was happy,but the medical professionals were not. I was positive,but the medical professionals were not. I cried tears of joy when I saw her sweet little face, and medical professionals reminded me that my joy would be fleeting…her life would be short lived.
Seven years later I sit in full view of the miracle before me. I fight the haunting of those days and choose to see all the happy of this day. She is the gift of this day, she is the joy that prevailed. She is the reason our lives have been made whole. We can’t listen to horror stories,or dismal words of a medical world that sometimes does not believe that God is bigger than any of all this.
Truth be told I don’t celebrate Claire’s “birth day.”
I celebrate the very first breath that she was never supposed to breathe, I celebrate each and every moment of the life that God has placed in my presence. I celebrate a life that was never supposed to be of quality. I celebrate her full beautiful life today,because there are no guarantees of what tomorrow holds…that is what makes today and everyday a very precious celebration.
The truth about today is that I celebrate Claire’s life just as any other day and I see her proving that God is bigger than any of all this.
And as she fell to sleep this evening, she was smiling still, asking “Am I seven?” I said, “yes,you are seven.” Closing her eyes with a sleepy smile she whispers “seven.”
Hello God in the celebration of today and the sleepy whispers of a growing miracle…Hello Butter
A true Proverbs 31 Woman
July 25, 2011
Our life is truly surrounded by butter these days. But having this diet change in my life makes me think of butter differently. I think of my life being made richer by the changes a high fat diet has brought. I look at a stick of butter and can’t help but think, ” I am rich” and I begin to count the ways I am rich.
One of the ways I am made rich is by being richly blessed by the abundance of love in this life. Knowing it is a stepping stone to eternity, the love found here and now is but a small foretaste of what our awesome Creator allows us to experience before we can all be called into His kingdom to love in ways beyond our mind can fathom.
God has blessed me beyond abundance with love that surrounds my heart and grows my soul.
Family love is one that makes my heart strong, but another love is just as great is that of a friend. While I have many to speak of today, I am talking of a southern beauty that walks and talks a love beyond what the eyes see straight to a heart that feels. She walks the Proverbs 31 woman’s life.
Wendy & Claire love
Wendy is love, Wendy helps my soul grow by just being in her presence and the strength of her heart pulls at mine. She is made strong by faith that she grows with living as a daughter of the Almighty King. The result of her faith is His love that shines as she walks through this life.
my eyes are so puffy tired, they look closed
I am honored God introduced this amazing friend into my life. We were reminded this weekend at the She Speaks conference of seeing life’s gifts, thank you Ann Voskamp for the gift of your mesmerizing voice and beautiful heart.
On my One Thousand Gifts list…my sweet friend,sister in Christ,Wendy Pope
Hello Butter 