Never Disappointed

That's not how I felt yesterday at all. Disappointment and the dull ache of hurt reached into my heart, places deep and insecure.  It's almost easier when the pain of let down expectations come from something obvious, a big fight, a disagreement, but when it's a quiet burning that just simmers it scalds me even more.  We finally broke the silence before bed, but my heart was still brusied and I feel a bit shaky today....

Through it though God showed me that I need to gaurd my heart against any thoughts of human disappointment being ever equal to how God may disappoint me. Because He won't. It was a soul awakening moment to realize I have been doing this throughout the years, not really consciencely but I have been placing God on the same level as those I love most...and those I love most will always fail me and disappoint at times. But God, God will never disappoint. 

"But as for me I will always have hope. I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteousness all day long and of your salvation though I know not it's measure." Psalm 71:14-15

*Another new day, full of God's mercy, together.
*Quiet nights
*Woodburning stove
*My mom
*My children who spontaneously recite scripture we've been memorizing
*My son reading and loving it
*God's strength in me, because I can't do it alone

A Card! Can you believe it??

Well, I think my mojo is finally finding it's way home :)  It helps to have a purpose to craft again and since we had a birthday party to go to last week I made this card for our friend's daughter who just turned 1! All stamps are PTI and I used my most favorite floral set for making backgrounds called Sending You. I love how easy it is to stamp and then color in with Copics, no blending. The birdy, sentiment and frame is from Tiny Treats Birthday. I am also starting to make baby cards again! The shop I sell them at told me people have been asking where my cards were and that they miss them :)  That sure does help the ol' mojo! 

**Makaio is getting to be quite the mobile little guy. He officially started crawling last week and is now pulling himself up to standing. *sigh* It's fun to see all his firsts and I sure am thankful he's with us, but he'll be walking and talking before I know it!  It goes by so fast......give the ones you love no matter how big or little a hug today and tell them you love them. hugs....**

Checking in

Hello! If anyone still comes to visit me I thought I'd pop in to say hi as it's been so long since I posted anything. No one has inquired where I've gone, so maybe no one noticed, but just on the off chance someone was wondering, well, I am still alive :)  Last week and for some of this week I've been sick, so that throws crafty time out the window and as our family life is still making some adjustments to baby #3 I'm just busy and then tired and I think I lost my mojo somewhere between here and Ethiopia. If anyone finds it would you mail it to me? I miss it. A lot. I'm hoping this weekend I feel like and have some time in the same moment!  So, since I don't have any crafty goodness to share, I will share a pic of my sweetie. Thanks for coming to see me....