Alive with Five!: Sighs in Japan...

At dusk, dawn, and noon I sigh deep sighs—he hears, he rescues.
Psalm 55:17 (The Message)

I can't imagine the sighs in Japan right now. I can't imagine the mothers weeping for their children--lost, gone, in pain. I can't imagine my world turned upside down as the Earth, unpredictable and volitile, moves beneath my feet, my family's feet. The devistation is unreal. And everything about Japan right now makes me sick to my stomach. Sick that I even had ONE complaint this weekend as I enjoyed beautiful sunshine and soccer games and hot tubs and time with my sister.

But there was impatience and anger and frustration as well--proof that no matter what I am given, I can find a way to squelch the joy--I can find a way to be anxious about the very smallest of things. And while I know that I am human, that it's natural to get frustrated and angry with the every day that I live, I hate it. I don't want it to be natural. I want to see His grace and love in every moment that I live. I don't want it to take sighs in Japan to make me realize what I have, what I have been given, what He keeps giving.

And oh, how I am grateful for His mercy, grateful that I am a work in progress to Him. And so, I continue on this new journey of gratefulness--invited and challenged by Ann Voskamp

to count my blessings in everything....

So thankful for...

#13. first words of the day from 2 little tots.

#14. getting to bring home the cutest/sweetest twins ever

#15. the joy on a 3 year-old's face as he watches the wonder of wind

#16. two little heads pressed together watching Kipper

#17. the joy in her eyes as she makes a goal

#18. not having to make dinner because he did

#19. the meeting between two geese and my two littles.

#20. ripples in the water

#21. another walk with Joey

#22. the splash of color in the trees....Spring is coming