What's going through your head today?

Ever get something stuck in your head?  At times, actually most of the time, this can be a bit annoying but today, for me, it's a very good thing!  Today, I can't get this song, really a prayer, out of my head.  The song is "Set a Fire" and this video picks up in the midst of an incredible time of crying out to Jesus.  This worship experience fires me up!

Set a Fire - United Pursuit Band

There’s no place I’d rather be,
There’s no place I’d rather be,
There’s no place I’d rather be,
Than here in Your Love
Here in Your Love

Set a fire down in my soul
That I can’t contain and I can’t control
I want more of You, God, I want more of You, God

Jesus, may it be that in your love is the only place I'd want to be; may I live, move, breath and be in Your love, for there I am complete.  Holy Spirit, may the fire you place inside me provoke me to share my life with those who need you.  

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She's getting older...

Older....


5 months, wow, I can't believe we are here already!  5 whole months you've been a part of our family.  She's getting older.  I love this 5 month stage.  She smiles a gummy grin every time I come near, she has found her laugh, she stares at me with love and trust.  

As she gets older the weight of the responsibility of parenting gets heavier.  As she gets older will we be able to instill the important things into her life?  As she gets older, how will I instill in her that beauty is a heart matter and comes from having a gentle, quiet spirit.  As she gets older, I want her to be secure in the love that her parents have for her and for one another.  As she gets older, I want her to be secure in knowing that we will love her no matter what.  The older she gets, the more I love her.  


Linking up today with the Gypsy Mama for 5 minute Friday.  

one thousand gifts...

You can read more about my 1,000 gifts here. 


17. moving help
18. dancing with my daughter in the kitchen in the midst of the mess of unpacking boxes 
19. old friends and new friends
20. a friend showing up at our "new, old" house with supper
21. making a house a home

CHANGE?

I know what "they" say, "the only thing constant in life is change."  





Change is good, right?  Change/transition brings new opportunities, right?  That's what I keep telling myself and others.  But, if I'm being honest in the midst of packing, I find myself being so uncertain about the changes coming.  We have three nights left to sleep in our current home in the country middle of nowhere before we move to our "new, old" house in the city.  I say "new, old" house because we own the house and we {J & S} lived there before but have been renting it out the past three years.  As we prepare to move back there, our "old" house {built in 1955}, things will look much different now as we move back as a "new" family of three.  


There are many things I'll miss about this space that we've called "home" for the last three years.  This is the home we have seen first hand the sacrificial love of others, this is the home we brought our sweet girl home to, this is the home that is only three hours away from my genetic family, this is the home that allows me to do life with my family of believers, oh, I could go on and on. 


As I am overwhelmed and my head is spinning in the details that come with yet another move, today, I need to remember this one thing: 


This is not my home. 

Jesus said, “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.  If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?  When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.  And you know the way to where I am going.” John 14:1-4

In the midst of changes that I an uncertain about, Jesus reminds me that He does not change and that He is the same yesterday and today and forever.  Today, I'm asking Him to give me His perspective.  Longing today for my true home of heaven. 

books on my reading list

Just a few books that are on my reading list:

 "The Help"
 

"One Thousand Gifts"

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 "Pagan Christianity"


A few books on Lyddie's reading list:

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Are You My Mother?"

One day I hope she'll like to read as much as I do.  What are you reading right now?

Change is here

Change: an opportunity to choose trust in the Greater One.

Changes in the Faulk Family:

1. We are moving to Macon, GA.  2. I will be staying home 
with our sweet girl.  3. Joey has a new job that he has already 

begun. 

Although there are only 3 changes....they are big ones! 

Moving date is August 20...lots to do between now and then.  

Remembering today that transition is hard, but it is okay 

because His ways are higher and greater than my ways will 
ever be.  With transition comes new opportunities.  Today, 
I will choose joy in this journey of transition and change. 

Hold on tight....here we go!!!

one thousand gifts

12. surprise visits from my husband that show how much he loves us and really does miss us during this time of transition
13. just thinking of this: He knows my future to the last wee detail, He knows it by heart! so what do I gain if I keep guessing and worrying?
14. sweet times with my sister
15. the coolness of a summer morning 
16. blue skies 


I dare you to live fully right where you are.  What are you waiting for?  You can read more about my list of 1,000 gifts here.

the many faces of my firstborn

I love her, I love being her mama, I love her smile, I love the two times I've heard her laugh out loud (and no, I did not catch it on camera...yet), I love her even when her sleep patterns which were so regular become so very irregular, I love how she is becoming so very inquisitive, I love the way she is discovering her hands by not only trying to "eat" them but by actually studying them as if to say, "what are these?", I love how it takes her a minute to find me with her eyes but once she does her entire face lights up, I love all of her many faces....4 months looks good on you kiddo.  Yes, one day we will all be sleeping better, but for now, I will enjoy every moment with her. 

one thousand gifts

7. summertime rainstorms, hard downpours with rain falling on the tin roof
8. the length and beauty of her eyelashes
9. realizing the total trust and dependence my sweet girl has in us as parents is the total trust and dependence my Father wants me to have in Him
10. abundant laughter at my husband at the supper table regarding his analogies  
11. my mama, she has always been and always will be a gift


For more about my 1,000 gifts you can go here.