Late 2009 List

So January is just days from closing out and on with February and so with my life moving far too quickly. Normally at this point I have written out a list of things I want to accomplish and desire to see God reveal or do in my life. Since I had my surgery and most of January has been unusually crazy and painful to say the least! So here is my year's wish list/prayer list.

 I want to see God do something amazing in our life, I want Him to sell our house in Atlanta and lift that weight off us. However we have seen our needs met time and again over the last 24 months.  I desire to homeschool Barrett and to see things within myself that can only be achieved through teaching him. God has something BIG within that I KNOW it.  I want church to not be so difficult, but rather a place of glory where people's wants are so secondary.  I desire to be the Mommy that leads my little men to be great men for Jesus and lay a foundation so secure they can only see Him. 

Nice....but it is just a list until I begin the work and then He can do His thing and all His majesty is shown to all that know the Burgess family. 

My Holly

I am quiet certain this is one of the MOST dear women I will know in this life. She has given me more in the 24 months we've been friends than others have in my lifetime. I am blessed beyond words to have her compassion and her love. I am equally blessed because we can laugh and cry together. She is a jewel and a priceless treasure in my life!!! 

Post-Op

As I sit here no make that lay here I am recovering from surgery on my ACL. It went very well and now I have a graph that is healing nicely or at least I pray hourly it is healing nicely. This last week has been on of dependence and complete reliance on "other" people. For anyone that knows me well that isn't easy. My children have been in the care of someone other than myself, my own physical needs even to the extent of going to the bathroom have been aided by other person, and all my day to day task to take care of "my" family are in the hands of someone other than me. So as I am evaluate this what does God want me to glean from this time of dependence on others. I am open to Him completely right now and I am listening. Of course there are some obvious things, trust in only Him to take care and provide for me, time to "stop" and listen to Him but I am looking deeper at the thing that maybe isn't so obvious that only God could teach me during a time of struggle such as this. I want to learn and be teachable and I want to come out of this full of joy and patience. I desire my children to see a Mom who knows Jesus is the only one that restores and heals our broken bodies and He alone can sustain us when we are powerless.  I know this is a unique time that I will one day look back on and be thankful, right now it's not so easy to sing praises but it will come.....just like my knee healing.....with time.