July!!!! Another month of CELEBRATION! America! Our Nonna! My Sissy!!!! We also had our sweet cousins & Sisterinlaw visit from Korea!!! We have to mention some new baby goats born!!! What a month!!! Looking back you can see God Answers Prayers! God takes care of us & gives us people in our life to help us, guide us, lean on, look to & most of all.. Love! We have some pretty amazing people in our family to love & what a gift family is and we get to BE HERE to celebrate the big ones!!!!!!!
🙏🏻GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS🙏🏻
Our 3 day old baby goats... got stolen. A tragic night feeling helpless & lots of tears shed. It’s a hard evil to explain to a 13 year old, why someone would do such a thing. I kept having to just focus on us praying for the people that have them and that they would take good care of them & that the goats would bring them joy because maybe they really needed it. It’s one thing to lose an animal, but for someone to come steal babies at that just socks you in the gut. This is not in plain sight by no means where they are. They are off the road on private land behind gates and fences and someone had to intentionally make this happen. I desperately put out a cry for help in our community & it worked!!
Thankful for our family & friends for their thoughts & prayers! My post on our County FB page caught the eye of an Honest Soul. ❤️ This man knew who had them, who the lady got them from & the name of the person who took them. (Let’s not focus on shady details), but the fact that this kind man saw something & said something & helped us!
WE GOT THEM BACK!!!! 🎉
We were in shock to receive the message & elated to have them in Emmie’s arms again & back to their nursing their mama! It’s so ironic after a morning of tears trying to discuss as a family what the Bible says about the trials we go through on this earth. Even though I could hardly get the words out to my own little family, I felt compelled to talk about this together, because of something Emmie had said to me. 😢 “Mama, I can’t stop crying & I don’t even know what I am crying about b/c so many bad things are happening.” (Side note- we also lost another goat due to an illness during this few day span)🥺 For many of us, “2020” has been no cherry on top! It was nice to sit & talk with our kids about All these things we are facing in the world, at home & in this life. It’s nice to be reminded that through it all, we have Jesus! We have our family & church & one another.
Romans 8:28 tells us, “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” We should all be able to find something we can be thankful for...but today...BABY GOATS top the list! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Our precious Nonna is 70! What an amazing soul this woman is. Someone that holds our big Orange family strong. Someone to learn from & look to for wisdom & love that is lasting. She’s solid like an oak tree & provides life to many & carries lots of leaves on her strong branches. The Lord waters her daily & I hope I can be a healthy oak like her for my big family. Happy Birthday to Nonna!
When you turn 40... you just have to celebrate! It’s a big one! My sis doesn’t want a lot of fuss or big party.... so being the older sister I had to respect that but also welcome her in to the next decade of her beautiful life! Let’s be honest.... life is meant to be celebrated! We don’t take it for granted... no we don’t. We know in a moment it could al change & that family picture has one less person in it. Hard to swallow... especially when it’s happened to you. I think that is what made my “little fuss” over her ok..... was when she saw my Daddy’s handwriting blown up as one of her decorations.... I got it off one of his cards & pieced together Happy Birthday Love You Daddy. Well that made it all ok I guess because we brought him there with us. I know he would have loved to celebrate his baby turning 40! She’s been through a lot in her 40 years of life & is tough just like He was. He would be proud. I am proud of her & being the big sister you cheer each other on!!! My life needs a sister & I am thankful for Amy Christine! I have gone before her for 2 1/2 years of the 40s... I am here to tell her.....
“It’s Fine, I’m Fine, Everything’s Fine” #thisisforty
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