.... excited.........

... great night tonite..  a fundraiser for the Pregnancy Center in Cambridge...Matt Day...funny guy, with an amazing voice and gifted hands ( a piano player..)  Clean Christian fun... haven't laughed this hard in a while....

Best of all, I got to go for dinner with 2 great friends..and on the way home, I got to share with them my excitement about how God is working in my life.. Explained to them what a Pregnancy Care Center offers for women that find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. From Pregnancy tests, Options counseling, one on one mentoring for expectant mothers, young mom's groups, post abortion counseling, adoption counseling, to free baby and maternity clothing, toys, strollers and so on....
I told them about the way God has been confirming that I am meant to be opening a center somewhere in the area in the last 4 weeks.. how He has provided a partner in this for me and between her connections and expertise and my counseling background and all that I am learning at the center in Cambridge God has provided a big chunk of what is needed to get this going. I am going to work on a presentation for the elders for their next meeting the beginning of November. God willing we will be able to start preparing for opening the Center next year after that.
Looking back, it is rather easy to see how God has been orchestrating the events in my life since I was saved 16 years ago. Really, how He has been watching over me, allowing the hard stuff all along to bring me to this place where my passion and my abilities ( because He has equipped me ) come together to finally lead me to the place where I need to be.. I am prepared.. I am willing...I am more available than ever before... Amazing, only He could have put it together like this..
Matt Day shared a scripture today that I love very much, it is  in Ephesians 2:10 :
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
I love it!!!!

.... He keeps them safe....

... last night, I had just gotten to the DivorceCare meeting with my friend, I got a text from my daughter that she and her roommates were at the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning.... the water heater had leaked gas.. the girls had unplugged the fire alarm a few days ago because it kept going off, they had cooked and thought it was because of that... everyone went home for Thanksgiving, they had called the Landlord and told him about what they thought to be a faulty fire alarm or something...
they came back Tuesday and never noticed anything. they slept in their apartment... went to school feeling nauseous and having a headache..she was sick so she thought it was another symptom.. only to come back from school and find the fire department at their house... another alarm had gone off in the building...no one told them to get themselves checked out but my very concerned and very capable daughter called Telehealth...they told them to go to the hospital, that feeling faint and nauseous were symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning...  the dr kept them on the oxygen for 5 hours before sending them home and advising them not to sleep at their apartment .... when thinking about this thankfulness wells up in my heart... they all would have died had they slept another night in this... I would have lost my precious child... I cannot imagine the loss.... I trust Him for them all and He proved Himself faithful once again... interestingly all the heartache of the last week grows strangely dim... all not that important when considering what could have happened..
Lord I thank you that you are looking out for my children... that you are in control, you are Lord over life and death..you have my beloved children in the palm of your hand... you are all they will ever need.. Thank you for sparing us all the deep, deep loss... thank you for putting things into perspective...
How blessed we are to be called your own... Let us never forget this... thank you for my children, for the joy they are to me.. please continue to keep them safe...AMEN