Good Night All!

             I know, I know.  I just got back and now I'm saying goodnight already.  My first day at work went well and I am exhausted to say the least.  Andrea's best friend is spending the night and they are cleaning the kitchen for a well-earned bribe, Rob is watching some "bowl" or other on the tube, the dog is already snuggled down on the sofa and Dufus has climbed inside my work shirt and is sound asleep as well.  Little fart will probably bite me when I wake him up to put him away.  He's tried to get me to keep him with me when I go to bed, but I would hate myself if I smothered his precious self as I slept.

I couldn't have a better life if I tried, you know.  We have so much!  We worried when we left the ministry in Mexico  . . . would they treat our "baby" and our babies like we did?  Would they love the ministry?  We gave our lives to building that home.  -  They've made it better!  We just got their Christmas/New Year's letter.  I got tears in my eyes.  God was right when He put them in our minds and hearts to take over where we were leaving off.  Of course things have changed, but we had a chance to plant the seed and water it for a while and now they are bearing fruit for it.  Who knows the final result?  Only God and His ideas are far better than our own.  Isn't that grand??

And to top it off, I have the world's best husband, a gorgeous little daughter, we have a beautiful tiny little house in a place we can't afford to live, a job that will take me as I am and I am so very loved that nothing I could imagine will contain it.  I wish I could tell you it was all perfect.  It's not.  We're not.  But do you know what love does to our imperfections?  Makes them invisible!  That's right.  We are loved, warts and all and that's more than we could have ever expected. 

As you can tell, I am grateful tonite.  Exhausted, grateful and loved.  Can't get much better than that.

Blessings to you all and: