Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween

Aaron and I were apart this year for Halloween. He's in Illinois recruiting, and I'm home in Virginia.


It turned out really great that he was in Illinois because our niece (Rachel) turned 2 this past week, and neither of us have been able to celebrate a birthday with her yet. He was able to spend some time at Ryan and Cory's house for Rachel's birthday party, and he was able to see Rachel all dressed up for Halloween. From the pictures I saw, Rachel was an adorable little lady bug! Aaron didn't have much to say about her costume, but he's a typical guy, and he doesn't pay attention to those kinds of things.

We also got the great news that we're going to be an aunt and uncle again...yay!! Ryan, Cory, and Rachel are expecting their next addition to the family on June 10th next year.
Congratulations Ryan, Cory, and Rachel!!

While Aaron was enjoying his time in Illinois with his family, I spent Halloween with our Goddaughter (Alana). This was my third year spending Halloween with Alana, and I can't believe how big she is getting. She just gets cuter and cuter every day! She was a pirate for Halloween, and she was adorable! We spent Halloween night at our church for the Block Party, and she kept wanting to go get more candy, so of course...I let her. She kept saying "more candy" and when she says "trick or treat" it just melts my heart, so I couldn't help but let her have whatever she wanted.

 

Later that night as I was spending some time with the Lord and reading my Bible, I was praying for Alana and Rachel. I was praying that the Lord would allow Aaron and I to be a good influence on these two beautiful little girls that we are so blessed to have in our lives. I was reflecting back on the evening (which is normally thought of as the "devil's holiday"), and I was thanking the Lord for how he uses so many of His children to mold young people's lives so that they can grow up and glorify God.

The Lord also reminded me of something else...
(In order to paint the scenario a little better... the set up for the Block Party was to walk around the building and the kids could trick or treat at each of the doors to the church, and they could go around the building as many times as they wanted.) With that said, while I was carrying Alana around to some of the different doors of the church, we would occasionally walk by someone that had a scary costume, and I'm not gonna lie...even I was scared by some of the costumes. But the thing I remember most is that as we walked by, Alana would squeeze my neck extremely tight and just trust that I would protect her. She didn't cry or scream or get upset, but she would just cling tightly to my neck and allow me to lead her to the next door.

As I was reflecting on that, the Lord reminded me of how Aaron and I have walked through so many different triumphs and trials over the years, and as long as we have clung tight to the Lord and trusted Him to walk us through it and lead us to the next door, we've been fine.

Aaron will be done with his recruiting position in two weeks, and he is currently looking for a job. He has a few leads, but no job yet. We have no idea what the Lord has in store for us, and it's exciting and scary, but I know that as long as we cling tight to the Lord and trust Him for direction, He will lead us to the right door.

We are so blessed! Thank you Lord for placing these two little girls in our lives!

2 comments:

  1. I love your analogy about trusting the Lord and hanging on tight... reminds me of how I heard an interpretation of the verse that he is a lamp unto our feet... lamps don't light the paths very far ahead so we just trust he knows where he's leading us!

    I hope you find out good news regarding Aaron's job soon! And those girls are adorable.. they are blessed to have you in their lives!

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  2. Thanks, Brittany. I've heard that analogy before too...it's a good one. What a great reminder...thanks! :)

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