This kid brings a smile to my face!
I just wanted to write how thankful I am for journals. It's been a long time since I pulled out one of my old journals (a year or so) so yesterday- as a good Sunday activity I randomly pulled out one of my journals and began reading it. It was from the year that the boys were born. 2004. Wow. Let me just tell you that there were some amazing tid-bits in there that I have completely forgotten about.
Aug '04 mentions how some days I only got three hours of sleep, from rocking each baby to sleep, in the middle of the night and how the ladies in the ward and Josh's sister Jen would pick up Elizabeth and take her fun places so I could nap. I completely forgot about that!
October '04 tells of the time we turned down an offer to do a law school internship with a big law firm in California, feeling that that was what we should do even though we had no other offers. We ended up getting an internship with the D.O.J in Washington D.C. for that summer.
Wow. It's a testament to me that the Lord looks over and watches over us. Our journals can be like scripture- personal accounts of the Lords Hand in our lives. We can read them and remember and feel loved.
And it's not over. Over and over the cycle repeats: a time of testing, trying and then a time of calmness and rest. As we write during each of those times we are able to record what is happening and have something to look back on during those times of trial and say "wow. I made it through then. I can make it through now." or even better- "Heavenly Father helped me through it then. He will help me through it now."
This is my blog. My name is Megan Abbott.
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