there are days...

 days when it feels so good to be married to a skilled (not to mention handsome!) physiotherapist.  this day was one of them.  Alemayehu was at football practice and everything went smoothly.  that is until after practice when another player challenged him to a spontaneous race.  somehow in that brief foot race he hurt his knee in some fluke kind of way.  

Jeff brought him home and assessed him right there on the kitchen table.  so thankful for that, because had i been alone i probably would have made the trek to ER for further assessment.  

anyway, he spent a couple of days on crutches, but the knee seems to be healing nicely for now and the injury doesn't appear serious.  thankful.  and yes, i sanitized the table after his sweaty feet were there! :)

they clean up nicely

 all pretty and decked out for a pretty special wedding recently.  it really was so much fun and nice to have our older two girls home together, at the same time.  sadly, Adam was called far away on a job so he was missing that day.  we made the best of it.  thankful for my beautiful kids~ and so struck by how fast they are growing up.  surreal actually.

and then there's their handsome father who really is my better half...

thanksgiving

i heard a quote that i liked, "Gratitude turns what we have into enough." there's solid truth for sure.

 

gratitude season.  love it!  thanks Layla for making truth visible in our home.  always so pretty! just like you!

rescue

 Lauren Daigle...again, her music speaks right into my core, my mind, my heart.  when i'm bombarded with messages of defeat or hopelessness or evil lies from the enemy of a lost culture that threaten to rattle and shake me, i hear this. 

"i will send out an army to find you in the middle of the darkest night, it's true, i will rescue you..."

just wow...

and then this...

"i will never stop marching to reach you in the middle of the hardest fight, it's true, i will rescue you..."

and He does, every time.  and i trudge along and get back up and press on in this life that sometimes feels real heavy.  in those moments, when i'm most vulnerable with God, He meets me there.  in the gritty details and the real-life struggles.  when i try to solve tomorrow, next week or next year, He reminds me to stay present in today.  to simply leave the rest with Him.  it's a daily calculated exercise i must practice, but admittedly don't always remember (and that never goes well).  even still, He sends daily graces, deeply personal moments that cause joy and gratitude to rise up when least expected.  and i remember who holds me, who holds them, and who holds the future. 

Rescue

❤