Welcome To My Crazy

I am SO excited for this journey called life. I think God has some GREAT things in store for our family! I can. not. wait. to see what He has planned. I pray we will be in the center of His will so we will not miss out on any of it! After some great conversations with my man I have been so encouraged that we are on the same page about a few things that have been on my heart lately!

One of the things God has been teaching me is how to love others. Wholeheartedly. No strings attached. No expectations. After all, it is what we are called to do. To love God and love others. But what does loving others look like?

If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. Philippians 2:1-4 The Message

I think it means living a life of service. And not just the good stuff like getting to stay home and serve my family. Which, I have to admit, gets hard sometimes. Serving the same people in the same way every. single. day. Everything I do, all day long, has to be done again and again and again. While I LOVE getting to be a mama all day and do not want to give that up, I want more. I need to do a little something outside the four walls that make my home. Outside this country would be fabulous but I will be happy just serving the good 'ol folks of Lees Summit. For now. Today my man and I went to shovel my mom's driveway. Now, I don't know for sure if it was the actual act of serving or that this was my first day out of the house in 4 days but I wanted to do more. So, off we drove to the next family members house. Then on the way to drop off a bag of clothes to a friend we saw a sweet OLD lady TRYING to shovel her car out of a snow mound. We quickly turned the truck around, jumped out, grabbed the shovels out of the back and started heaping snow. She just stood there...amazed that we WOULD NOT accept any money from her sweet heart. We told her we wanted to do it because Jesus loves her. She was so thankful because she was needing to get out and get her prescriptions. Oh hurt me cute! After we were finished my heart was SO happy. And so was my man's. Now a little closer to my friends house we saw a van stuck on the side of the road in the snow. We parked right in the middle of the street, hopped out, pushed his van out, jumped back in the truck and continued on our way. I was giggling at this point! Of course my friends driveway was a mess so we shoveled her driveway then set the bag of clothes on her doorstep. On the way home we talked about how much fun it was to get to serve others and get nothing in return! Well, nothing but a full heart.


We have the honor of serving in my firstborn's Sunday School class. Love those kids! One Sunday we talked about worship and all the ways we can worship God. Serving is one of them! I just long to be close to Him. To please Him. To be ALL He created me to be. I do not want to miss out on anything. Here I am Lord. I give everything to you. My life, my home, my security (gulp), my family (double gulp). Help me to love you more. With a crazy kinda love. After all, your love for me is ridiculously crazy. You sent YOUR SON to DIE FOR ME. Messed up little me. So you could have a relationship with me! You love me that much! Now THAT is CRAZY! But I thank you for it. And in return, I want to show you the same crazy kind of love!