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So there are many times in our lives we say “I will never ‘fill in the blank'”

At least for me those “I will never’s” are 99% of what my life has actually turned into the opposite of.

Every time one pops out of my mouth…I have come to be accustomed to it actually coming true.

At this moment in time I literally have so much running through my mind on this so called life I have total writers block.

This time last week we were enjoying some beach down on South Padre Island with my family.

This time last week Joe and I came to a pivotal moment in our marriage.  A turning point…

We all have them…right?  Those moments in time when God breaks you.  He breaks you so hard you don’t know what is going to happen next or how you got there.

The past 3-6 months of our marriage have been rough.  It’s been two people living side by side TRYING to raise three young boys while keeping our sanity with our work.

It has not been our greatest moments.  These were the moments we never thought we would get to in our marriage.

Moments of selfishness.  Moments of frustration.  Moments of wanting to give up and just run away.

Honest?  Yes.

Well, God broke us last week.  It was His only way of showing us His love.  We were so consumed with ourselves and our tasks.

I am so incredibly thankful.

I get chills just thinking about how it all happened and how things are now unfolding.  I have seen the hand of God move some chess pieces I would have never thought possible…and now we are climbing out of a dark cave….and oh my goodness the SON looks so amazing!

Our little family is so much more full of life than really ever before, all because we were broken, humbled and desperate.  It still is incredible to me to see so much GREATNESS come out of so much pain.

We cried a lot.  A lot.

We are still working through it.  But I have NEVER been more in love with Joe than I am now.  I have NEVER been more thankful for a man who chose the hardest choice ever in following Jesus to flush out the pain and get our marriage back on track.  I have NEVER been more thankful for Joe…he chose me…and I chose him…our vows that we said 6 years ago are more sweet today then they EVER were before.

SO here I stand…yet again working through an “I will never” and considering VERY STRONGLY the possibility of moving back to Friendswood with our little family.  There are no con’s.  TRUST me, I tried to find them.

God has opened our hearts…oh my gosh He opened them…never has a decision flowed more smoothly.

As dorky as this is I prayed for God to make it rain on a car ride that was PERFECTLY sunny out.  Not to test…just to kind of joke…(God and I joke a lot)…

It rained.  Actually it POURED.  Then it cleared up and nothing more was heard.

What a wonderful life we live.  The devil tried to attack this family…and he did a pretty dang good job…but he did not win.

And now we get to see where the Lord wants us next, now with more wisdom, more strength and more gumption to fight for His cause again.

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