Sweetest LIttle Boy!

Aren't you glad God sometimes gives us a big fat NO! We have all these plans...dreams...expectations...We plan our lives out right down to the job we want, the place we will live, the amount of money we will make, how much education we will need, and even how many children we will have! We have so many assets at our fingertips to make all these things happen...and we think, b/c of technology and how far we have progressed in our knowledge, it is in our power to make our lives just as we have always wanted! We rarely give thought to what God's plan for us may be. We are busy making plans and making sure they unfold just as we see in our little finite minds. But have we ever stopped, BEFORE proceeding, and asked God what HIS AGENDA for our lives may be. I am great at making plans, and then asking God to bless what I have already decided upon!



BUT...I am learning to stop, and wait! To BE STILL before the Lord! To ask before doing! To listen for the promptings of the Holy Spirit before even making plans at all!



BUT...another BIG BUT...aren't you glad when we do proceed without holy direction...that if we are TOO terribly off track...He will bring in the reigns and stop us dead in our tracks! He will reroute us! He has an ultimate plan...and even though I believe we deviate from that plan and He allows us to do so...maybe even at the expense of missing out on HUGE blessings He has in store for us...if we are too far from what He wants...HE CHANGES THE COURSE!



You see, Travis and I only wanted 2 children! We had a healthy boy and girl! And mind you, they weren't easy to come by! Both pregnancies had their ups and downs! Both were Very scary to walk through...and we had decided that we were done! We didn't want to take that risk again! So, in our finite minds, we had taken precautions to make this plan a reality! Until God intervened! He knew our lives needed a little LUKE! And boy was our God RIGHT! PRAISE His name He didn't listen to that prayer. But He stepped in, in all His wisdom, and blessed our lives with one of the greatest blessings in all the world! Luke Anderson! Our whole family has seen the mighty hand of God through this little guy! I am speechless at the miraculous love our Father has for us! In my earnest desire...He saw through that ignorance and KNEW how my heart and life needed one more to love! And I am so glad!