Wow.. as I sit here typing these words to you, I am in awe of how much time has gone by since my last post!!
When I last wrote, my Matthew was eight years old.. he is now almost eighteen!
Gabriel, the "baby".. is now almost eleven!
I am so shocked that so much time has gone by. So many things have changed.
I have loved. I have lost. I have gained.
I still struggle with my health, but I have grown in the Lord enough that I know that these trials and pains are but a moment in time, compared with unending joy that Christ has promised for those that belong to Him, in Eternity in the near future.
So in truth, how can I truly complain?
I take comfort in knowing that someday I will no longer remember physical or emotional pain.
It will fade away forever, once I see His Face.
Because of Christ's great mercy, I am in a better place as far as getting back to "me".
With so much trauma, starting at age three, it has been an incredibly long and often painful journey.
I have cried, screamed and ultimately questioned my value to Jesus.
But after all these 10 years, I am certain of one thing more than any other..
Jesus Christ is REAL. He is ALIVE. And He is FAITHFUL.
When all else fades away- all the glitter and distractions.. He is all that remains.
And for that, I am so humbled, so thankful.
He is all I need. All I want. He is all any of us need, and deep in our heart, all we want.
That's why we are always on a quest to be happy, to be filled.
Because we ARE hollow at our core.
We have a Jesus-sized hole that only He can fill.
So come.. I invite you.
Come, be filled and be satisfied by the Lover of your soul.
The One Who made you, Who formed you into the beautiful human being you are.
He is the Wellspring!
Come, drink from the Everlasting Fountain of Water.
Let Him nourish, hydrate and permanently fill your weary soul, as only He can.❤
Jesus answered and said to her, 'If you knew the Gift of God, and Who it is that said to you, Give Me to drink; you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you Living Water."
The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have You that Living Water?Are You greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank there himself, and his children, and his cattle?"
Jesus answered and said to her, "Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinks of the Water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the Water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of Water springing up into everlasting Life."
The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not.."
(John 4:9-15)
