Foster 4.0

"Come to my babies blessing"

Yesterday I was in my room folding laundry, when Audrey came in and told me to come to her babies blessing. I followed her into her room where she had lined all of her chairs up in a row and told me to sit. She then stood up in front of me with her baby doll, Stella, and said, in a really loud voice, ( I think she was yelling because of the microphone at church) and yelled, "Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, bless this baby to be strong. Amen."
Is that not just the cutest thing. This girl loves church, actually she is giving her "wesson"(lesson) right now in her play room. And just whispered, "I'm now in the library" She and her babies are just the best of friends! Hell, this girl needs a sibling.

The question of why...

I think sometimes we wonder why things are happening to us...what is the reason behind some of our trials or even our current situations.  I found this quote that helped me understand this question of "why" a little bit better.

"Like an astute coach or a gifted teacher, God prepares his saints for the tasks to which he has appointed them before he uses them.  Moses, for example, spent forty years in the desert, herding sheep, before God called him to lead his people out of Egypt. What better preparation in patience could there have been for his assignment of leading an equally stubborn flock of people through wilderness for forty years? Similarly, David learned courage from his own experience as a shepherd. Later the one who had learned how to take on wild animals in the defense of his flock would be called upon to take on the biggest wild animal of all, mighty Goliath, in the defense of God's flock. God knows how to prepare his people for the tasks to which they are assigned" (from Living in the Gap Between Promise and Reality by Iain M. Duiguid).

A Battle to be won

I have been thinking lately about the reason we are really here on this earth.  It seems so easy to get caught up in the every day to day whatevers and I've realy been frustrated at the lack of motivation I've had to become a better person. It's easy to forget that the only reason we were put on this earth is to be tested for what's to come next.  We are here to serve God and to become like Him and it just seems so easy to forget that...