Lesson learned the past few days: We adjust fairly quickly to the challenges handed to us. At first, 6 kids seemed really hard, but it became normal. Just having 4 in the house seems so easy & quiet!
On my mind: my brother {Happy birthday, Paul!} and his sick wife, and looking forward to this weekend!
Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:
Mark 5:24-34
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
50. a phone call from the sisters!
51. a quiet evening as a family of 6
52. seeing friends & family at my brother's birthday party
53. a sweet old friend coming to take our family pictures {for free!}
54. a relaxing Sunday afternoon
55. pizza for Sunday dinner, courtesy of my parents {no cooking!}
56. family seeing Budders like he usually acts during the week, but on a Sunday
57. silly, innocent questions about anatomy from my 3 year old
58. my messy 12-passenger van (because it runs! & I can transport my whole family & then some!)
