THANKSGIVING

It's almost Thanksgiving.  Michael and Brian are coming home.  This is the first time Michael's been home since.  I know things are different.  I have had almost nine months to process the difference with you gone, they have not.  They have not experienced coming through the door and not hearing the TV downstairs, or not embracing the aroma of Daddy being home.  They have experienced their own difference and sense of loss, but it will be fresh and new during these days.  I am praying so hard for comfort for them and peace and for wisdom and strength on my behalf to help them get through this.  We have so much to be thankful for even in this season of loss and that is what I so want to focus on.

Just when I think I have everything under control, I am reminded I do not.  But I know Who does, and He has never let me down yet.  God's word tells me in 2 Corinthians 12:9 

"'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.' 

 Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, 

that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

I am so thankful for the grace of God in my life and that when I am weak, He is strong, and He is able to work in and through me.  He has blessed us with health, we have homes, jobs, cars, friends, freedom to worship, everything we need and most of what we want.  Even in loss, I have learned that I have so much to be thankful for.  People ask me if I would bring David back if I could and I can in all honesty say "No, I would not."  He is where God needs him to be and I pray I am where God needs me to be, or at least I am getting there.  So, during this season of Thanksgiving, love your family a little more.  Hug them a little tighter.  Tell them one more time how much they mean to you. Tell them how much God loves them.  Pray for them, and pray for us.  God bless you all.  

In His love, Pam.