Prayers Answered

The reflective season of Lent gave way to the joy and uncertainty of Easter. The hot July sun makes winter and spring feel like a distant past. It is the long season of Pentecost, a time of working out your call with the help of the Holy Spirit.

My longings and waiting of Lent has been answered and my life transformed. No longer pregnant, I carry little Andrew around in my arms. No longer wondering what will happen with Ulrich's work, he has quit his job and launched his own company. And in all of this God has been with us.

We often hear "Be still and know that I am God." I think my call for the past few months has been, "Be busy and know that I am God." I think this is a harder call. In the midst of the busyness to still recognize God's work in our life. I have seen it. In the way he pulled my family together and held us up at the loss of precious Micah Jon, in the way he's provided exactly what we need, when we need it, in how easy going and healthy Andrew has been so I could have the energy to focus on and take care of things that have come us even with a newborn strapped to my chest.

God is with us. In death and new life. In risks. In love. Always.