Happy Easter and the "Big Reveal"!

I hope everyone has had blessed and holy Lenten Season. Tonight begins the Easter Season! A time of celebration! A time to celebrate life - a life that lasts forever! Death has been conquered by Jesus' sacrifice!

I love the Easter Season. I love the spring with the blossoming trees and new flowers. I love the First Communions. I love seeing the little children receive Christ's Body for the first time. I even love Mother's Day (although for me it has been a very painful holiday in the past) and honoring my mothers and grandmothers. Next year, I may be a mother and I will love the newness of that, too.

Our family Easter celebration is in a few hours. My E has to work until 5:30 so we're doing dinner instead of the traditional mid-day meal. I am taking angel food cake with strawberries, whipped cream and chocolate. Doesn't that sound yummy!

My nieces are on their way up to spend the week with Grandma and Grandpa. G & G will be tuckered out by next weekend not being used to a 4 year old and a 2 year old in their house for more than a couple of days. I'm sure Uncle E will be over there on his days off this week to help entertain.

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Now on to the Big Reveal!!! My Lenten Prayer Buddy is an absolute gem. I am not sure that she even reads my blog but I read her every post. She has given me a lot to pray about during the Lenten season. Thyroid cancer, foster care home study, Lenten sacrifices, thyroid removal surgery, discomfort after surgery, fatigue, migraine headaches, an EDD that came during Lent - this girl kept me in constant conversation with God!! But, I would not give up a minute of it! You all know who I prayed for, SEW INFERTILE! God bless her, she has had more challenges than any God fearing woman should have but you know what? It has made her incredibly strong. I believe that with what God has given her, Sew can bear the unbearable and persevere. She can take those challenges head on, plow through and come out the other side with her convictions intact and ready to tackle the next challenge. Even though Easter is here I will continue to pray for you, Sew, as well as all of the other women who have touched my life through these blogs.

The most amazing thing is that by focusing my prayers completely on Sew and taking my own requests out of my prayer time I have heard God speak to me in an entirely new way. I stopped searching for the answers to my own problems. And in doing that I heard direction for my future. I know now where God wants me to be.

My next post will be about our adoption(s). Yes, possibly plural!


God's love to you all!!!