Thankfulness

One of my favorite quotes says, 

"Thankfulness trumps EVERYTHING." 

This has been my theme the last couple weeks, as Junior and I celebrated our three year anniversary!!! Our anniversary was during the middle of the week, so we did dinner with a walk on the pier enjoying the beauty and the sunset.  Then Saturday we enjoyed a fancy meal and some frozen yogurt accompanied with live music afterwards. All in all, it was a fun celebration week. I am thankful to have had three years together and excited for what the Lord will do in the years yet to come! I know that marriage isn't easy, in fact, it has been the hardest thing I have ever done, but I also believe it is worth it! These is nothing like it. God is good, and I have learned so much about who God is and how to be a better person through learning to love my husband. I read a blog recently that I loved about the daily choice to LOVE in marriage. I encourage you to click HERE and read it as it spoke volumes to me, I hope it does the same for you. 

To enforce that favorite quote of mine this week, Junior was in an accident. It could have been SO much worse than it was. His brakes didn't work properly making him run a red light and causing a collision in the middle of the intersection on a busy street. His truck was totaled as well as he was banged up. His nose is cracked, lips swollen, leg swollen, chest tight, headaches.... it could have been devastating. When I first got his voice-mail I was panicked as he only said he had been in an accident and to call him. Unfortunately, my husband is not good at wearing his seat belt and that is all I could think about at the time. However, by the grace of God he had put his seat belt on seconds before the accident occured. He has a new perspective on why I always bug him about wearing it and I am thankful for this. We are praising and THANKING God for keeping him safe and alive.

With these events in the last couple weeks I am remembering how good and bad things happen, but it all boils down to our perspective on it. Do we let it rock us and be discouraged or do we celebrate in the goodness, or worry about what is to come? I encourage you to be thankful. It is a powerful tool you have to embrace the beauty and remember your blessings. I also believe it will help you have peace, that kind of God peace that passes all understanding. Thankfulness trumps everything! 

So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. 

Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:33-34

Summer time travels

I can't believe it has been almost a month since my last post... where in the world has time gone. Summer is flying by so fast, they always say the older you get the faster time flies. I believe this more and more with each new day. The past two months have been full of travels. We have been gone more weekends than we have been home in that time frame.

Two of those were spent with our family in Marianna, FL filled with wedding festivities, where Junior was the best man. Weddings are a great time to remember your own journey of Marriage and to rekindle the sweetness of being newlyweds. We were able to speak wisdom into the the new couple as the Lord continues to teach us, which is truly an honor.


One of the weekends we spend translating for Haitian migrant workers which was such an experience. We don't realize how there are communities in our backyard suffering for the food we put on our table. I have watched documentaries and read about migrant farmers, but meeting them face to face and hearing what they go through is all so different. Now I know their names and every time I sit down to eat a piece of corn for example I think of them. It was a blessing for us to be a part of this clinic for migrant workers and for me an added dose of confidence in my creole ability was wonderful.

First Fridays

The past two weekends were spent with family and friends in Nashville and Kansas City along with lots of driving. We drove up to KCMO to see my family for the 4th of July and it was absolutely wonderful. I couldn't tell you the last time I had been there when it was warm, in fact Junior had never been there when it was warm. It is so much more lively, we did a lot more tourist experiences because, well we could. We went to see KC Sporting soccer game, the zoo, First Fridays, the River Market and pool time at my parents. It was a lovely visit. I am very tempted to skip the cold and just head there from now on in the warm seasons!

Pool Party and the Parents

River Market

traveling through God's beautiful creation! 

Overall, it has been busy and I have missed writing on here, but the beauty is while I was not writing I was living. I can also say I was living well... going after the treasures in my heart: family, friends, vacations and celebrations.... all the while trusting in the Lord's provision. 

God is good, I hope that this season you too, are living well.