Well the holidays have been great; celebrating Christ, seeing family, sharing laughs, the food, and all the rest. But as I'm sitting here writing this I can't tell whether to be sad or overjoyed that the lines of separation in my life have blurred so much that I can no long compartmentalize my life into family, church, work, worldly, spiritual, etc. Since my last post on December 21st, I've spent time with Mandy, the kids, Mandy's mom, sisters, brother-in-law, soon to be brother-in-law, her granny, aunt, uncle, three cousins, father, step-mom, my sister, her new husband from Morocco, my niece, my nephew, my mom, her new boyfriend, my older brother, my younger brother, and my cousin, and all this took place over many different visits within three different cities in two states. Over this time I've worked on different things for the Restoration House at various times which led me to travel differently than Mandy and the kids both to and from Virginia. Mandy and I also provided childcare for a two month old for one of our Restoration moms for two nights and three days as she was in the hospital for a gall bladder which included multiple hospital visits and phone calls, while we also started caring for two horses from some friends while they're out of town. (this overlapped my sister's family and then my mother's family staying at our house over New Years).
Through all of this I've experienced joy and laughter, as well as sadness. I've made my wife happy at times and disappointed her multiple times. We all need rest from our rest but I know all of these experiences have been valuable. I'm so thankful our life is an adventure and it isn't easy, but it's worth it. Jesus really holds all this together and we would be lost without him.
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