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P.S. I didn't know your husband was deployed! I want to say how grateful I am for all our BRAVE soldiers, and I know they couldn't do this without the support of their families! Thank you for the sacrifice that YOU and YOUR family have also given, in order for your husband to serve our beautiful country! We have our freedom because of people and families like YOURS!!! Thank you for YOUR sacrifice for our country! I mean that from the bottom of my heart Hinds!

I am totally in agreement with you hinds! I am so excited to hear the praise reports on this one! One thing that came to mind was in your lower moments or times when you are feeling discouraged, try meditating on GOD's LOVE for you. Watch how this opens the doors of blessing for you and your family! I love how in the gospel of John, He was the author of this gospel and he is constantly referring to himself as 'The one whom Jesus LOVED!' This is the man whom Jesus revealed hidden secrets to (who would betray him), and the man He trusted his widow mother to! Its easy to believe God can do all things. Its a bit harder for me to believe that God can is is willing to do certain things for ME! The more I meditate on His love for ME, it convinces me that He is not only ABLE but WILLING! I just love this....

P.S. Sorry for the length...

Thank you so much Cholette! This is SO true!

I LOVE this!!! Thank you for sharing! I sometimes forget this...I got the goosebumps too when reading this!!! I love that anger was meant to be used to avenge righteousness...along with self-control! I will meditate on this and get it deep in my heart! What a powerful truth!

Im prob exhausting you just with my posting....

Great question! Well............edited very personal info out after getting the encouragement I needed. Thx!

Need prayers and any added suggestions on how NOT to let certain pushy family members cross my boundaries WITHOUT it draining my energy level to sustain the boundary. Boundaries have not been an easy thing to apply in my life. Does anyone know what I mean?? I will edit this content after getting the responses needed, due to personal content... There has been some family drama that has led me to the conclusion that my moms house is NOT safe to bring the kids around for the Holidays. My mom doesn't really want to let this go, and is trying to get me to tell her what she can do to make me feel comfortable. I went though this last year, and the energy drain is unexplainable. She is very stubborn and says she will do anything to make her house a safe place to have the holidays. Nothing that she can do will change my mind about having the holidays at her house~and this is NON NEGOTIABLE FOR ME.... How do I get her to respect my boundary, WITHOUT the constant energy drain? I am starting to get to the point of exhaustion and am wanting to push away from her entirely. Any suggestions???

Please pray brothers and sister for me during this time. There is some family drama, of which I am having to set down some hard boundaries for with my mom. Please pray that I would have the strength to do this with ease, and that as I have to keep these in place that my energy level doesn't get drained anymore. Thanks SO much!!!

Thanks for sharing this link! She seems wonderful! Im sure everyone wishes to have a big sister so sweet! Given she was like a mother to you, I see why you seem so sweet too!

U def are stayin !!! Thats for sure!!!!

U R LOVED BY MANY D!!!!

You are so sweet!!!! Thank you SO much for this post!!!!! What a nice thing to say!!! Its SO nice to connect with you on this forum!!! You are a blessing JoJo!!!!

This is so sweet that your sister wanted to give even in her last moments...how precious! This makes me want to weep.

You are a blessing jjp708! Its so easy for all of us to do this...seeking our own answers. Its so important to have this perspective, to be willing to see how we can each give here on this site, to the body of believers at our local church, and to those we come into contact with throughout the day in the world too! I so agree....

Thanks for rejoicing with me!!!!

This is beautiful! He cares so much doesn't he!!!!

Ok, so my hubby got a new promotion...praise God. The hours are a little challenging though...especially with little kids. He is required to work many weekends, and is now on the night shift. I know Halloween is a little contraversial, but we do let our kids dress up (in non scary costumes). It has always been a fun thing to have my hubby go with us for trick or treating..but since it is a new promotion he wanted to save requesting days off for Christmas eve, and the day before thanksgiving instead of halloween. I was kind of pouty about it. But I brought it to the Lord, and I prayed. I know it may seem like a silly request, with all the more important things that are going on in the world. I was hoping they would automatically schedule him off knowing he has little kiddos. His schedule came up and he was scheduled to work. I was so bummed. But I determined in my heart to make it the best case scenerio for the kids sake. So we were planning on going without him. Well a few days ago...a person who is a supervisor over my husband approached HIM and asked if he wanted to switch days with him since his kids are grown!!!! I was so shocked!!! I actually started to cry! Not so much that Halloween is a big deal, but because MY little request actually meant something to God...that he would move on the supervisors heart to ask my hubby to switch days!!!! I felt in that moment, that if something is important to me...then it means something to God!!!! Here is the kicker. Today I was taking the kids to another event, and my hubby had to work. My daughter NEVER is sad when my hubby is going to work...but today she started crying when he had to leave. She really wanted him to go to this event that has been kind of a fall tradition to us. NOW KEEP IN MIND IN ALL THE YEARS MY HUBBY HAS HAD TO WORK FOR THIS COMPANY...THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED!!!! His car was warming up...and he kissed us all goodbye...and literally as he was walking out the door to leave for work he got another call from his superior asking if he wanted to have an EXTRA day off today!!!! I guess the manager misread the schedule, and showed up when he didn't need to be there! I am just blown away by how much God cares about the little things that matter to us!!!! We serve such an awesome, loving God!!!