Where Does Your Treasure Lie?

If someone were to ask you right now what gives your life meaning, what would you say? Is it the same as it would have been 10 or 20 years ago? Has it changed over the years?

Family has always been very important to me, especially because I didn't have any for so many years. Now I have an abundance of family members and often feel bad because I am not able to keep up with them as closely as I'd like to sometimes. But I'll tell you one thing that I know with absolute certainty. When you are blessed with family you are blessed indeed! And I am so blessed it's crazy!!

Another way that I have been blessed beyond measure is the fact the our Gracious Heavenly Father gave me a precious & wonderful daughter!! I prayed for her before she was conceived. She was a miracle from God, my husband wasn't supposed to be able to have children without medical intervention. That's how he was able to have his boys. But the Lord heard my prayers and answered them abundantly! What joy filled my heart when I learned that I would have a little girl(she wouldn't have to be named Kudzu Gazebo!) (Long story)

I can feel myself beginning to get all mushy here talking about Amanda because they are about to embark on a new chapter of their lives & we may actually be separated for the first time since she was conceived. I mean she's probably going to be moving out of state because her husband is going active duty very soon. This is much worse then when I had to move her into her Freshman dorm in college, or even her first apartment. This is more than a relatively short drive away. Ugh! Lord, please give me strength!

ENOUGH OF THE PITY PARTY!

Don't get me wrong, I am so very proud of her. I love the fact that she's a strong, independent young woman and that she shares a certain adventurous spirit with me. She wants to see other places and experience new things. The difference is that I left Chicago because I had no family left there. My Mom & Sister were deceased. No reason to stay. If they had been alive, I'd still be there.

But I also know that nowadays, even when you live far apart it is so much easier to keep in touch. There's Skype and FB and all kinds of things. I just know it's going to be difficult, especially around the holidays. That's when it's the hardest to be apart. But fortunately I still have Adam & his family living close by.

And who knows, maybe wherever they're living, we'll like it, too, and move out there. I'm so ready for a move anywhere. I am definitely a gypsy at heart and I need a change! LOL!

But what I want to say, right now, is that I love my daughter so much and I just pray daily that she & her little family will be happy no matter where they are. And I pray that the Lord will protect them and keep them from harm. I know I can trust Him to do that because He told me from the beginning that she really doesn't belong to me. She belongs to Him and He's allowing me to be a part of her life. Just like Hannah in the Old Testament (Samuel's Mother) I can be confident in giving her over to God because I know I can trust Him to take of her when I'm not around.

Sometimes it's just so hard to let go no matter how old they are.

Proverbs 27:11 You are a wise son/daughter who makes his parents' hearts glad.

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
--Irish Saying


A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.
-- Author Unknown