2012, wow. Crazy to think that we have come this far! I remember being in high school, thinking I'll never get married, I'll never have kids, ect. Yes, well, here I am married, and have had five children through my home this year. This year is a good one to look back on. I have had relatively good health, thankfully, NO surgeries. After 12, that is quite a praise to make it a year with none! And we have two forever little boys. There is no bigger praise than that. Nothing more can really be said, but that God has blessed us more than we deserve. And I am so thankful for them. I am thankful for the gift of being Mommy. I am not always very good at it. But He has blessed me with the time to try, the lives to mold into men for Him. Looking back, thinking I would never have my own children, and now I have three - two of them forever! Thank you, Lord! Really, nothing more needs said, but we are blessed!
I always get a bit reflective on New Years' Eve wondering what next year will hold. And of course, this year, the same questions are in my mind. But this time last year, we only had one little boy. We have gone from one child to three! Who knows what the next year will bring! Maybe I should be scared. We grew exponentially this year! You can't be a foster parent without wondering what the future holds. I wonder it every day. But definitely on the dawn of a new year. We hope and we pray, but we really don't know until we walk the road that this year holds.
I pray that this is the year that my children learn more about God, about being real, about growing in Him. I have hope that they will be saved at an early age. And I also pray that they will absolutely understand deeply what it means to have a relationship with Jesus, a real one. I pray that this year I will exhibit this for them, that they will know that their Mommy loves Jesus. So much for a parent to realize is their responsibility. We are shaping little lives helping point them towards their Savior. May I do my job well!
I pray for health for my children and my husband and I. We have walked the road of illness with each child. It is not a road that I would like to travel again, so definitely good health is on my wishlist for the new year!
I pray for peace in our household. I hope that we continue to learn how to develop the personalities of each of the children, that we teach them to obey, that they learn to get along with each other and with us as their parents, that calmness with reign in our household for the most part. That may seem to be a strange wish, but bringing children into your home that come at 9 months, 1 year, or even closer to 2, means that they already have personality traits, and even some values, that have to be melded into the household. And it is not always peaceful. I pray for peace.
I pray for safety for each of us as we have no idea what the future holds. I pray that we will look back at the end of 2012 and have as many good memories of that year as we do of this year. I pray that we will add more to our family by adoption. I also pray that we will know when to quit LOL. I pray that my children will have truly grown in knowledge, and stature, and in favor with God and with man.
We have been given three little gifts for now. I hope that we can be all to them that they need. The parents that they haven't experienced appropriately in their short lives. I pray that even though they know they are adopted, that they will be utterly secure in our love for them and that they will know that beyond everything else in this world that we love them more than life itself and are eternally thankful that they have been brought by God to us. It is amazing to think of the circumstances that have brought each child to our lives. Now may we be worthy of the gifts we have been given.
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