Count Your Blessings

   This has been a terrible, yet awesome, and an always to be remembered week! Terrible because my mom has had to spend most of it in the hospital. Awesome, because through it my faith and dependence on God has been strengthened, my prayer life, and more of an appreciation for the blessings I do have...for each one of my  family members, especially.

    I have a tendency  to go through life not focusing on my blessings but everything that's going "wrong." I see it as wrong but really, God sees it as perfect, for His way is perfect. I have to remind myself over and over of Romans 8:28 -"...all things work together for good to them that love God..." More often then I want to admit do I fail to put my trust in this truth and that's when I start going down the path of worrying and focusing on the bad...but that's where this week has made me go back to 2 Cor 12:9, over and over again -  "...My grace IS sufficient for thee..."
 Relying on this truth has made it come alive for me.

Mom is back home now!!! :-) She still has a ways to go to be completely recovered, so please, keep praying for her! That's another thing, thanks so much to all who have been praying! It helps so much to know their are others holding us up in prayers...and that we have a God who never ceases to hear and answer those prayers as He sees fit!

By - Ashlyn Elaine