Not sure what is making me write this post…but here I am…and I am typing…so enjoy…maybe?!?

One of the most amazing things ever that comes along with this job is the INCREDIBLE encouragement I get along the way.  Never at a job have I even felt so much love and thankfulness for what I do.  Gosh…can I not even BEGIN to tell you how thankful I am for you?  You have no idea what those words mean.  I know that it takes your own time to sit there and write those out…and in all seriousness I just have to say from the bottom of my heart…THANK YOU!

I also wanted to just take a moment to address and encourage any of you who look at this life and crave it.  You want the husband, the kids, the house, the job you love.  To you I say…you will!  To you I say…NEVER settle for anything less than that.  This might find you in a funk.  Getting to the point of wondering why it has not happened for you yet….where the heck your prince charming is…and it is to you that I type this post…you have been laid on my heart so much over the past week…and I did not even know what to write or how to start…but I so badly want to tell you how loved you are, and how proud I am of you not giving up on that dream.  God has some amazing stuff in store for you!  SERIOUSLY…I CANNOT wait…however…take your time.

This life that you so badly want is blessed, it is rich, it is rewarding…it is also incredibly tiring, so hard & one with no more time.

Take your time…you have the rest of your lives for all of this.

Marriage…wow…marriage…

It is one tough cookie to figure out.  It is so blissful, so sweet to get the spend the rest of your life with someone who loves you no matter what and someone who makes you better than you already are (if you NEVER settle).  Marriage is also the first opportunity for you to realize how stinking selfish you are.  Man…am I selfish!

It is also the time in your life when you first learn to balance.  You now are torn…time with The Lord…time with my husband??  How do you make it all work??

Then the kids…holy cow…kids….

That is one that completely smacks you up the side of the head and tells you moment by moment how selfish you are…and how you HAVE to stop wishing it all away because they grow up too fast, but all you want to do is sometimes wish it all away.

And forget it…time with the Lord??  When does that happen???  4AM?  Yup, if I can get my lazy butt out of bed…and if He is ok with me not REALLY being awake and possibly falling asleep half way through because I never really made it out of bed in the first place.

Honest enough for you?

I think back on some of the sweetest moments in my life…and to those I think of the times when I was in solitude…when I was on my knees seeking God in my single apartment all by myself…those moments, as hard as they were…those are the moments I sometime crave for my life these days.  Those were the moments I was the most intimate with my walk.  Those were the moments Jesus was my best friend.  Those were the moments I was learning the most about myself.  Those were the moments I could do what I wanted…when I wanted…what??

Those might be the moments you are in right now…oh man I hope so.

Because if so, PLEASE…for me…ENJOY everyone of those moments.

Feel free to read this blog, see my family’s pictures, desire a life full of blessings that are God given, but know that my biggest prayer for you to whom I am speaking is that you relish the moments you have now.  Enjoy friendships, books, crafts, hobbies, alone time…you will never have it like this again.

You are in such a blessed time…be thankful…

“I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. “

1 Corinthians 7:32-35

Amen!  With that…there is nothing more that I say…boom…I LOVE His written word to us…He is so good…and He loves you so much!

(Thank you, Brooke Schwab Photography, for the beautiful picture of my amazing family)