Life is Good

Right now, life is good!

After a horribly long winter, with a ridiculously inordinate amount of snow, it is finally, FINALLY warm and beautiful outside...

My son is home with us and adjusting wonderfully...

I have amazingly good friends, who are so fun to be with, love my kids like their own, and make me laugh...

But mostly, right now I feel like the long months spent in the hospital and uncertainty are behind us and quickly becoming a distant memory.  I am starting to realize the magnitude of what God has brought us through, and I am so thankful, and continue to be amazed.  Even though I knew God would bring us through it and I was (and still am) trusting in His plan, to look back now, now that it's over, I still can't help but stand in complete awe. 

As we start to move past the last few months, however, and begin to move on with our lives, I am reminded of two things.  First, life will not always be good.  Yes, we got through a hard season of life, and things are great now, but things are going to get hard again.  It's just a fact of life.  It's not always fabulous and happy, and certainly not always easy.  Solomon speaks to this in the book of Ecclesiastes:

"When times are good, be happy;
       but when times are bad, consider:
       God has made the one
       as well as the other.
       Therefore, a man cannot discover
       anything about his future."

Ecclesiastes 7:14

And so I am truly enjoying life right now!  But I am always trying to grow in strength and wisdom, so that when the hard days come, I am more prepared than the last time.  Which brings me to the second thing I am reminded of.  I cannot forget what God has done for us in these past months.  And I especially cannot forget everything that God taught me in the midst of the hurt and the pain and the fear.  I have grown as a person, mother, wife, and follower of Christ, and when times get hard again, I have to remember what God is capable of, and the lessons He showed me along the way.  

Right now, I feel like all is right with the world.  But when things get turned upside down (and they will), I will be a stronger woman, ready to face whatever comes.