Above and Beyond My Wildest Dreams ...

As our journey continues, I am simply amazed.  God has continually, without fail, given me "just enough" for the next task and I have found that I have been able to do things that could only be done with the Lord strengthening me (just as He promised).

Another promise that holds true is this:

The week after my son was discharged from a lengthy hospital stay I had a huge "fight" on my hands trying to receive his much needed pain meds.  It was a needless and senseless battle as he should never have been discharged without it.  Anyway, many times we face things so that God can be glorified.  I finally decided to try his pediatrician, hoping for just one refill on his prescription.  Yes, I sometimes think too small when we have such a great God.  We ended up receiving more than we could ask, think or imagine...and I immediately thought of the above verse.

Yesterday my dad went into the hospital in the early morning to receive his new heart valve.  I prayed ... I asked many of my friends to pray ... Dad did very well and the doctor said he couldn't have asked for a better surgery.  Ah, but wait!  That morning, a "new and improved" heart valve arrived at the hospital and my dad was the first person at that hospital to ever receive one.  Isn't that just like God ... to provide more than we could ask, think or imagine!?!

Over the past few months God has been working on me in ways that I hadn't expected.  As I receive His gifts and spot little glimpses of how He is working, I know when all is said and done I will again stand in awe and I see He went above and beyond my wildest dreams as I receive something more than I have been asking, thinking and imagining.  That, my friends, is pretty exciting!

Until next time ... you may be thinking small, but we serve a bigger God and He has so many great plans and amazing blessings He wants to pour on us!