More Storage Needed

Well, I was going to sit down and upload some photos and talk about the move...and stuff...BUT, I have apparently hit my free storage limit.  I am going to have to figure this out!

I have been absent from here for a bit, simply because I am exhausted.  I am not exhausted from unpacking and putting away, but from the amount I still have to do.  I am so tempted to leave it all packed. :)  I just might.  Our house functions well for now...except the fact that I need to dig out the Christmas decoration and find Campbell's 18 month clothes (her pants are now "high waters" and it is freezing outside) and to find the girl's snow boots (it doesn't matter too much, we barely have any snow outside). I think when I look out in the garage, I feel crippled by the amount of boxes...and honestly, most of those boxes are just paper.  Our movers made sure that everything was wrapped multiple times...even our shoes were individually wrapped.  So, really it wouldn't take that long...right...maybe??

I feel funny complaining about it really.  I mean, we have a bunch of stuff and over the years we have been really blessed to have some of these things.  To be able to decorate our home, to have cool kitchen appliances and cookware, to have sheets for our bed, to have a crazy amount of clothes.  Most of the people around the world don't even have those things.  I need to change my mindset.  It has me in a funk.  I need to be grateful for what we do have and not grumble when I see a pile of laundry that needs to be washed or folded.

I have been trying to take some time for myself lately.  It helps a lot.  Being a "caregiver" to a "wounded warrior" can be hard and lonely sometimes.  I still haven't decided how I want to approach the subject on here or to anyone.  It is not a burden, but a privilege, really.  But as I said, it can be lonely, because unless you have been in my shoes, you can't relate.  Being in the military is hard for anyone who is not to relate too, but add the complexities that come with war...that is hard for even some military members to relate to, because everyone experiences war differently.  But God brought an amazing friend into my life just when I needed it most.  She has been in my shoes.  Talking to her the first time...felt like I could breathe again.  She has been getting me out of the house, which can be hard at times when you are so use to taking care of everything....just to go for a walk or the movies or be crazy and go to Black Friday events can be refreshing.

Anyways....I hope to be back soon with pictures!  I have a bunch I need to upload.  I know all the grandparents and great-grandparents are wondering where the pictures of their grandbabies are!

In the meantime...I am posting a something that helped me today.  

I love this blog, if you couldn't tell.  

I may not be experiencing pain...but this is certainly relevant to my life today.  And, ironically, I have been reading though the book of Psalm.

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NOV

How Do We Pray Through Pain?

2012 at 7:30 am   |   by Carolyn Mahaney
Filed under Biblical Womanhood Prayer Spiritual Growth Suffering

So if the pain can’t be prayed away, how do we pray? If the answer from God seems to be “no,” should we keep repeating the same requests? Or should we just stop praying? 

A friend and I were talking about this recently. We’d both reached this point in our lives. We had prayed those “righteous, rigorous, repeated” prayers Nancy Guthrie talked about, but the answer from God still seemed to be “no.” Uncertain of how to pray, we each returned to God’s Word, and in particular, to the Psalms.

When we feel like don’t know how to pray (and even when we think we do!) we must rely on the prayers given to us by God. Throughout the Bible, but especially in the Psalms, God has provided relevant, profound, infallible prayers.

Here we cannot go wrong. Here we can pray each and every word with confidence—certain that God is pleased to hear the prayers of His eternal Word, prayed in faith, in the name of Jesus Christ.

And these prayers are not lifeless or detached from the struggles and stresses of real life. They are waiting for us in the depths of human grief, confusion, and uncertainty; they pull us up to the heights of praise.

So when you can’t pray away the pain, pray through the pain. Pray through God’s Word. Pray through the Psalms.

“The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer.” Psalm 6:9