Happily Ever After

Watching her slowly deteriorate is gut wrenching at times.

Knowing this is His plan gives me strength to endure these hard days.


Knowing He has numbered every one of her days....


Knowing this life is nothing compared to what is to come...

I remember that Tuesday when she was being admitted into the hospital for the shunt placement surgery.  We were in the admissions waiting area and she asked me why she had to be in the hospital. I gently explained to her the need for the shunt and treatment plan.  She agreed with her sweet little nod as tears streamed down her precious, puffy decadron cheeks.  "I am tired of all this.  I'm ready for my life to be over.  I'm ready to go home", my oldest child and only daughter shared with me.  I so understood her homesickness.


I'm ready to go home, too.  This earthly life isn't as appealing as it used to be.  The past 2 years have been filled with MRIs, doctor's appts., IVs and such.  She longs to go home and that's OK.

     I think He's wooing her to Him.  ~♡~    I'm glad He is her first love.  

I still believe God performs miracles.  Sometimes He chooses to deliver His children by taking away the thorn.  Sometimes He delivers the miracle through the thorn.  I think the miracle He's performing in my life is what He's doing in my heart.  Perhaps the thing that He's doing that is far more abundantly than all that I can ask or think (as described in Ephesians 3:20) is the rooting of faith with a deeper understanding of His unfathomable love for us ~ it's a heart thing.  He's bringing about an eternal perspective I don't  think my hard-headed, stubborn self would learn any other way.
For this I am grateful.




His Word again brings me such comfort.

So we do not lose heart. 

Though our outer self is wasting away, 

our inner self is being renewed day by day. 

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,  as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

So we are always of good courage. 

We know that while we are at home 

in the body we are away from the Lord, for 

we walk by faith, not by sight. 

Yes, we are of good courage, 

and we would rather be away from the body 

and at home with the Lord. 

So whether we are at home or away, 

we make it our aim to please him.

2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:9

All summer long her art expressed thoughts of heaven.  Even though her favorite color changes every day, she often comes back to white.  Like most little girls, she dreams of meeting her prince charming and living happily ever after.   

She has a heart for eternity.  

Her Prince of Peace will one day sweep her away 

and she will live happily ever after, 

clothed in her signature color of

white.