Snow Brightens the Darkness

Among the plethora of things that swims in my head longing to be written...I must say the darkness has gotten to me this year.

Winter 2006, I gave birth to T.J. and my mind was on a high considering it was our first year on the field (with kids). I was focussed on caring for two wee ones.

Winter 2007, I was still pretty excited, I got baby fever and what do you know, I am pregnant! Somewhere between here and the following winter my "wake-up light" breaks...poo.

Winter 2008, I had little Pea to take care of plus two excited boys, life was busy, but I was still able to play more with the boys while Pea slept in the pram.

Winter 2009, Pea is EVERYWHERE, I am having to do homeschooling, nap schedules, potty, EVERYTHING by the clock. This got the best of me and I found myself having much difficulty getting out of bed. I tell like a million people I miss my "wake-up" light and then Mikko pipes, "So are you saying you'd like a wake-up light for Christmas?"

Among other things, God has been doing some pretty amazing things around us. He has aloud me to experience and see young women, who have connections with the church plant, share their lives with me and I am excited about what God will do with each of them.

There are also stresses that come with churchplanting and Mikko has done an outstanding job keeping me out of all the details. He knows I want to sleep well at night and so encouarages me to keep loving on our kids and training them in the Lord. I'm cool with that!

I am also learning lately that I need to relax more, take myself less seriously and God more so.

About a week ago I locked us up inside because we were coughing and B had a serious fever. (Of which he rarely ever has!). Midweek through he expressed that he will feel better if it snowed "lots and lots". So we prayed and few days later...It snowed! It does make a difference in Helsinki if there is snow...mommy is happy anyways!