Holy Smokes, it’s been some weekend. It started with the real life fairytale of a genuine prince marrying a common girl, and that common girl becoming a genuine princess. I watched and relished every moment of the whole shebang.
Friday afternoon my daughter and I left chilly, dry Colorado for warm, humid Texas where one sister lives and another sister visits, too. Our plane ride with heavy {scary} turbulence had us both praying hard and me keeping a brave face whenever her wide blue eyes looked up at me. We make it to Dallas just fine {YAY}. Soon I’m snuggling a fresh baby niece and “big kid” toddlers all the while remembering how those early young’un years aren’t the best of life, they’re the most exhausting of life. Sweet and darling {and frankly still missed sometimes}, but exhausting. We sisters talk too much and laugh too hard enjoying the company we don’t get too often.
It’s Sunday evening when I’m enjoying the best cupcake evuh-a key lime and coconut cupcake with white chocolate frosting topped with a perfect little fondant butterfly-that I hear the news that justice has been served. Our brave military has once again done its job to ensure our safety and freedoms. Amidst the victory are feelings of fear for loved ones overseas, soldiers who might face retaliation. So, I continue to pray the prayer my kids taught me, the one that says:
“Dear God, please wrap our military soldiers in super strength bubble wrap to keep them safe. Amen.”
Life swirls around us and at us, the family visits with scary plane rides and royal wedding love with nation consuming war. It is beautiful and terrible all at once. But it’s also in His hands all the time. Knowing this doesn’t necessarily take away the heaviness of it all, but it does get me out from under it.
Halftime at a United States Air Force Academy football game.
I don’t know how all international affairs will turn out or even how my plane ride home will turn out. I don’t need to know how all the dots connect, I just need to believe in the One who maps them. God saw the work of the cross brought to completion, and He will see the work in me, in you and in this world brought to completion, too.
There is rest from the swirling in that.
And the swirling continues, go check the (in)courage site! Can’t wait to swirl and twirl with you in October!
I died when I read it. Then I got up and died again. 🙂 So thankful…you have no idea.
Thanks for writing this…exactly why I’ve been thinking about lately. I just gave my fear and worry to God and I felt a sudden sense of peace and I was able to go right to sleep last night.
That’s often something I must do again and again! He is faithful!
Thank you for this! Amen, Amen & Amen!!!!!
It was quite a weekend. The top news story kept shifting all weekend. The cupcake sounds wonderful.
Quite a weekend for sure and to top it all off…you got the scholarship! Yay! Congratulations!
Some luck we have – you and I – huh? 😉 Although I know most certainly it was GOD, and not luck… I am so thankful to see your smiling face again at Relevant this year! Perhaps one of these days we will have some time to share military-wife stories and have a real conversation that exceeds the 140 character limit on Twitter! 😉 Congrats on the Relevant ticket, the new niece, sister visits, and all the other swirling you are enjoying these days! 😉
Just wanted to swing by and congratulate you on the {in}courage sponsorship. So exciting! Hope to meet you there!