Kylie May

Kylie May

Layla Faith

Layla Faith

Zoey Noelle

Zoey Noelle

Boyee

Boyee
Our baby boy, due March 16th.

Sunday, March 04, 2012

Now Choose Life

Another quote from our pastor last Sunday, "You can either live in blessing, or in Sucks-ville. It's up to you. You can live in blessings or in curses. You can live in faith or fear. You can be healthy or sicker than a dog. You do it on purpose."

Can you tell, we're pretty real at our church? Life isn't always easy. Through the challenges and hard times, we need to choose life. We need to make the conscious decision to live in blessings and faith. We chose life when we moved in November 2010. Until February of 2011 we were wondering why we left such a comfortable life in Stevens Point. It was harder than we thought it would be. Things improved in Jan/Feb 2011 with Bryan getting his job at Starbucks, my hours increasing at the bank and the list goes on. Those things didn't just happen. We worked for it. We had to choose to make things better. It would have been easy to mope around and be like Eeyore and feel sorry for ourselves, but who was that benefiting? We chose life.

Just when everything was going great, we found out we were pregnant with Layla. That was around this time last year. We were on a high of how perfect things were, until August. Then, another low. Another challenge. We were knocked down, big time. But, we chose life (literally, too). We chose to keep our head, just above water, and make it through.

God seems to have this pattern of ups and downs. He reminds us that He's in control, all the time. In the ups and downs. Knowing this pattern, I hesitate being too excited or happy or on this 'high', in fear of the down. It's like I'm waiting, for things to go wrong or bad. Not that I want that, of course! But there is it. The choice. I could waste my time, living in fear of the next 'down', but why? I can and will, yet again, choose life. I'll choose to enjoy my current high. Having my dream job, living in a new place in a great neighborhood, making new memories with my family. I will enjoy what I have and stay humble. I will give all of the praise to God. Who has and will continue to be my strength everyday.

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