Redemption

I love how my husband loves my daughter.

I think about how close they are right now at this stage and I cherish it because I realize that this will come and go throughout her life and ours.

I have thought often about how God is so gracious to me to redeem garbage from my own life through the childhood of my daughter. This is an amazing part of being blessed by God and His true goodness. I praise Him that I am, for the most part, not bitter over things of the past. And that I get to revel in the desire for wholeness in the relationships within our own little family.

There is something that fills my heart and heals the scars of the past when we have joy in our family. (Please dont get me wrong...we are a total mess. Occassionally however we get it right!) There is something that makes my heart leap when the words I LOVE YOU or IM PROUD of you are spoken. I love that my own little family says it alot. I love that the girl will not have to struggle with the same things that I did. (Of course I know that her journey will be different...that she will struggle with other things...and that God will show up for her in different ways that He shows up for me)

I love that she gets told that she is beautiful every day and that is is loved. And I love that she knows that God loves her even more than we do.