A Week of Blessings

Last week God overwhelmed us. It was a week of learning and practicing patience and a week of an abundance of God's grace to us. On Thursday we purchased a new home (which we will be sharing with my Mom and my sister Jasmine); on Friday my Mom sold her house and God was SO good to us in that; and on Saturday we confirmed our suspicions that I am pregnant with our third baby! Praise God for he keeps us from what we deserve and gives us SO many things we DON'T deserve!

The journey has been a long one in coming to finding a home that will suit our two families becoming one, but God has sustained and carried us. Now, if you are a person who has grown up in Canada and have been taught from a young age that your independence is and can only be true if you move away and stay away from your parents, then you may be thinking "you are CRAZY"! Well, both Brennan and I grew up that way as well, but have come to appreciate community as a major part of what God has for us and our family. I understand that not all families can or would ever consider living with Mom/Mother-in-law or any other part of their extended family. Our society says that is off or not right. In fact, North America is pretty much the only society where you move out when you get married or move out when you are 18. In most other cultures, 2 and 3 generations remain together, supporting and sustaining one another. Again, I am not saying that this is THE thing to do. It is simply what we have been called to do. And we are VERY excited about it. God has blessed us with beautiful relationships with my Mom and Jasmine and regardless of the adjustments that will come, we all desire to honor God in how we care for and with one another.

And it's a good thing we are moving because, yes, you did read correctly above...WE ARE PREGNANT WITH OUR 3rd!! We will get our new house in May and our baby is due in November. It is early in the pregnancy as I write this, and we know that many would wait until they have finished their first trimester before sharing the news...just in case. But we believe that God has placed us in community to live and share the good and the tough. That means we share the joy our Father gives and we share the tears of what or when He takes away.

"The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers..." Deuteronomy 30:9

"Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!"
1 Chronicles 16:4