When she sent this, she had no idea what it would mean. When I read it, neither did I. But God certainly did - my friends are a lifeline somedays. An hour later my world feel apart once again and I recalled her words to remind me of His stability.
Hey dear,
Thought of you today during church. They talked about your favorite verse, Jer. 29:11. I'm sure you have read the verse in context and it really made me think of you:
10 This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares theLORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. [b] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."
I think of you with all of your health struggles - how you seem to be captive with your illnesses, yet you bear them as best you can with the help of God. God delivered the exiles from captivity and restored them to their rightful homes. I think it would be a long jump to say that God is going to restore us here on earth, but I know we will be with Him in heaven.
Anyway - thought for the day!
LOVE YA!!Em
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
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