Take Two. God's "Little" Reminders

God's "Little" Reminders 

I love old photos. my memory is so bad, not like "alzheimer's bad", but like "mommy with too much on the brain" bad. it helps me see all of the chapters of my life where God has shown his faithfulness, displayed himself to me in BIG and small ways. it also helps me remeber that my babies are small....regardless of how 'big' i treat them. and i need to have more grace on them because they're are kids, they haven't been around the metaphorical block very long. slightly sobering. it also helps me remeber how much fun we have as a family when i intentionally let go of 'stressing out' and 'fixing things' and 'being tired'. here are a few of my favorites. it was hard to stop adding THE PHOTOS....i love these crazies with all my heart!!
(bbbuuuut, i don't know how to link them from the 'google plus' post...so i'll just pick new ones) #childofthe80s just kidding i figured it out!!! WHOHOO!! 

Psalm 139 is one of my favorite pieces of scripture. I love the reminder of how special we are to God. how he knows us so intimately and created us to be little reflections of himself. i'm a perfectly imperfect mama. trying to raise her tribe to love Jesus with everything they've got and to impact the world in a postivie way for Christ. these verses help me to remember that I don't need to have it all together, because i belong to The One who does, and who holds all things together. our time is short, here on earth. trying to make the most out of every moment...but sometimes i forget....or i'm too lazy...or just tired. but i'm trying.

You have searched me, Lord,
  and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

    you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down;

    you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue

    you, Lord, know it completely.

You hem me in behind and before,

    and you lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

    too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,

    your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

    and the light become night around me,”

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

    the night will shine like the day,

    for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

    when I was made in the secret place,

    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

    all the days ordained for me were written in your book

    before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!

    How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them,

    they would outnumber the grains of sand—

    when I awake, I am still with you.

If only you, God, would slay the wicked!

    Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

They speak of you with evil intent;

    your adversaries misuse your name.

 

Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,

    and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?

I have nothing but hatred for them;

    I count them my enemies. 

Search me, God, and know my heart;

    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

    and lead me in the way everlasting.

nothing but personality with this one!! 

Our hotel in China

My Little Man and his dance moooves

scuba diving dargo style

Triceratops and swinging at the park

our littles