Kindred Spirits

  Some people call them best friends, but I think I like how Anne Shirley, in Anne of Green Gables, described those friends who are like a long lost sisters. Anne descridbed them as kindred spirits. The kind of friend that you can talk to for hours, even if you haven't seen them in forever, and you can pick up where you left of. I have been blessed with a handful of such friends. With everything going on right now the sweet kindred spirit I miss so much right now is my sweet friend Keilah. 

This picture always cracks me up because it is the only time in my life I have ever had a black eye. And to top it all off I got it falling down the stairs at Keilah's house. This picture is also of the last day I was at Rochester. I can't believe it has been 3 years since I first stepped onto that campus. But I am so thankful God took me there to meet this sweet friend. And I am so excited for her that she will be a mommy soon. 

      Between Thomas being gone and dealing with so many emotional things right now I am so thankful for the sweet sister's in Christ. I am thankful for their prayers and support. Finding out about having endometriosis and different news from back home they have been such a blessing. I am thankful for the peace God has filled my heart with. And the support of my awesome husband. I am thankful for God's word. John 16:33 has been my verse of comfort this past week or so. 

" I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world".  John 16:33 

    Some days life really, really sucks. I know there have been many days this year where there is no other way to describe it. Life just sucks. I know with out a doubt that this is where God has brought us. I think that is what makes it so hard some days. It hurts to be here some days. But God is a God of order and he didn't just randomly stick us in this place. Through it God has grown me like crazy. And I am so thankful and just so blessed by it but that doesn't make it any easier. But I guess that is where is word comes in to help give us words of encouragement and remind me where my peace and joy come from. For a time when I first got out here that God had sent me away to Siberia. The weather was sure cold and gloomy enough to think that. I felt exiled and so very very alone. I have been completely broken here. But with those broken pieces God is putting me back together in a way I had no idea possible. And he is helping bring Thomas and I closer and build a marriage I didn't think was possible. 

I stand amazed at what God can do. I am also so very humbled. My heart is filled with God's peace and joy. I can face tomorrow because my God lives and He has conquered the world! 

The song that keeps repeating itself in my head is a song that I use to sing in bible school. The words are:

 My God is so BIG! So strong and so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do (clap clap) 

My God is so BIG! So strong and so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do.

The mountains our his. The valleys are his. The stars are his handwork to.

My God is so BIG! So strong and so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do.