This home improvement project has been one of the most emotional projects that I have ever done. This past New Year's Shawn told me he felt like we needed to begin preparing the baby's room. I couldn't believe how hard it was for me to agree to begin this project. Thankfully we have a few friends that have been extremely persistent about encouraging us with this undertaking.
When we moved into this house a few years ago this was the 1st thing that I wanted to change. Then I realized it was going to have to go on the back burner because it involved much more time than we had.
I apologize in advance if this offends anybody...but this is MY blog and if you have a problem with it...don't read it! It was PINK FLOWER WALLPAPER!! WHAT were they thinking??? Then after we FINALLY got all the wall paper down I realized something...our house had at one point in time our house had been invested with SMURFS!!! Ridiculous blue! To be honest I liked the blue better than the freaking pink flowers!
The room is finally done...it went from Smurf infested to a beautiful "Haystack" color above the chair rail and "Mountain Ridge" below the chair rail. In Crayola colors that is a light yellow & a beautiful brown.
One of our friends gave us a crib before Eli was born and they wanted us to keep it for our baby. When "the kids" moved back home with their mother the crib stayed with us and has been in the basement ever since. This weekend, as we finished the room, the last piece of furniture that went in was the crib.
You can see the ipod in the crib...We have Praise & Worship music playing 24/7. Hopefully I don't have to wait till I'm 600 years old for MY rain to come! :)As I come to the end of my 2 week wait, I'm prayerfully hopeful that this crib will be filled with in the next year. I ask that God will give me the emotional strength to enter that room each day to pray for our child.
Do you remember my New Year's Resolution?? That's how I felt this weekend...a little crazy!
You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. Psalm 77:14
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20&21
You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. Psalm 77:14
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20&21
God YOU are my rock. God YOU are my refuge. God YOU are my strength. Father please hide me when the pressures of life overwhelm my heart. When my heart is weighed down with the burdens of life come my way and the answers aren't always easy to see, I cry out to you Lord MY rock, your very present help in time of trouble, You are the author and perfecter of my faith.
1 comment:
I know what an emotional journey this must've been for you, but I LOVE the analogy of building the ark before it starts to rain. Imagine! Back then, it had yet to rain! And most people around him thought he was stupid and mocked him openly, but he was obedient. God spoke to me about doing this "building" in particular ways before I got pregnant, although I had never put it with that story before. I picked out the names of all of our children and I began making picture frames with each child's name on it. I wrote a letter to our future baby, as a proclamation that we would have a child who would one day be able to read it. God told me to get ready for Him to work, so I did. And, I saw Him answer those prayers just months later, and I'm living it out everyday.
I know that God is doing something SO BIG in you right now. I have been truly blessed by the things you've shared lately, and my prayer is not that God will answer your prayer (because I believe He already has it in motion), but that you will see the answer soon!
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