through the song of a little boy!

I was listening to Jayden the other day when he was playing down stairs.  I was upstairs and I heard him singing.  It was so sweet as he sang his song.  He sang about his Daddy and Bubba mostly.  But it was perfectly in tune and as I listened I was reminded of the verse in Zephaniah 3:17 ~ The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love.  He will rejoice over you with singing.  I wondered as I was listening to Jayden sing, that maybe God was rejoicing over us with singing, and maybe using the sweet song that Jayden was singing to do just that.  It seemed to me that verse made more sense that day as it came alive through the voice of a little boy.  It seemed to really change my heart.  I often wonder how God can so simply and beautifully speak into our heart and show us that He takes great delight in us, in me.  That He would use Jayden's sweet words to remind me.  As I sat their and heard him sing about Daddy and Bubba, I heard in my heart the words Abba Father.  What a gift that was for my broken heart.  That God must really love me to show me so simply and illustrate it so beautifully.  Abba Father really loves me, He really loves us!  He is still mighty to save.  He delights in us and he rejoices over us with singing!  It's not always the way we think.  Often when we aren't expecting it, He shows up.  Maybe in the voice of a little child!  Thank you Jayden.  Continue to sing your song!  It's beautiful to Him and to me! 

patience ~ has a perfect work

We are studying the fruits of the spirit in our Bible Study on Tuesday mornings.  We have been looking at patience the past couple weeks.  Why is it when we study one of the fruits of the spirit, that becomes the one that I will struggle with that week.  It just seems to happen that way!  When we looked at love, I struggled to love, when we looked at joy, I struggled to find joy.  When we studied peace, guess what, didn't find peace that week either.  All that to say, I sense God doing a work in me and showing me how to live beyond myself.....each week that we study the fruits of the spirit.  Thank God that He has an amazing amount of patience with me, more than I have in myself for sure.  I learned today that the practice of patience helps complete something lacking in us.  When we struggle with patience with people, it often brings out the worst in us.  But that keeps us from thinking too highly of ourselves.  It keeps our pretenses from working.  In any give relationship demanding patience, God could be working life in one person and death in the other.  Meaning, that it often brings out the worst in us to get rid of it. So let patience have a perfect work!  So if God is working patience in you and it's really hard, he's bringing death to it, He could be working good in the other person, all for His purposes and all for the completion of patience in us.   Thank you Beth Moore. 

11 Corinthians 10:7-12

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ⁸ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰ We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. ¹¹ For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. ¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

voting, loving and soaring!

Wow!  I'm amazed that we have won such an amazing amount of money.  Thanks to all of you for expressing your love to our family by voting for Jayden, Brooklyn and Livia and many other children as well.  We don't know yet how this gene therapy will work, but we know that it holds amazing possibilities.  God will be glorified in their lives we already know that!

I am so amazed at the young people that have stepped up to help with raising the awareness of Sanfilippo.  Wow you guys just rock!  You make my heart soar.  God bless all of you for rocking our world.  For giving Jayden, Brooklyn and Livia a chance to live longer and richer lives.  In Isaiah 40:31 it says:

but those who hope in the LORD
   will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
   they will run and not grow weary,
   they will walk and not be faint.


So we find new hope today and find our strength renewed to soar on eagles wings.

Keep soaring with us!  God will be glorified through these precious children that we love so much!  Jayden, Brooklyn and Livia you guys rock my world.  I can't tell you how much I love these babies!  They are precious in His sight!  Thank you for your beautiful smiles you light up my life every day!