Awakened to...

Awakened to...

• the richness of His word
• how everything that I hear, read and see seems to point to Him and every area He is chiseling
• the gift of being known by a few courageous warrior daughters of the King
• the joy of the desire to attempt to memorize my boys' faces as they sleep
• the kindness in his way of pursuit
• the bondage and depth of my sin
• the hope of freedom and victory only experienced by His chisel and my surrender
• the excitement of the first day of school
• the reality of overwhelming love
• the choice I have to receive that love
• little ways the enemy steals, kills and destroys
• crazy ideas that may really be God ideas
• how admitting failures is true success
• how He is delivering me from the bondage of living in the picture of looking like I have it all together
• the power I've given other people instead of My God
• the shields that He has made available
• the gratitude
• the desire of my heart
• the power of dependence on Him vs. independence and self-reliance
• the willingness to say "I can't do it"
• the fun of dance night at the Morgan house (my favorite part is when Ryan will dance with Ian and say, "Dad, it's your turn to dance with mom.")
• the pure love that flows from your child
• the understanding of what wholeheartedness may look like
• the dancing picture that is messed up in my head
• the strength that supernaturally appears when I have nothing to give
• the need for rest and Sabbath
• learning that Jacob's wrestling match with God was his first honest fight he had ever had which prepared him to meet his match:  Laban.  (Hmmm)
• tissue warnings
• my yearning to write
• boundaries 
• peaking out of the pit, preparing to stand on solid ground and dance wholeheartedly!