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| Mother's Day 2011: Bryan, Benjamin, Kimberly and Samuel |
I originally began this blog as a way to keep out-of-state family and friends updated on our little family, when Ben was a baby back in 2008. Somehow, it has morphed into my own personal place to share what's going on not just with my boys, but with me personally, too -- how God is growing me as a mother, wife, person, friend. I also like to share my interests: books, cross-stitch projects, whatever else comes to mind. I'm random at times, but it's okay...eventually I'll come back.
It's a way to keep me sane in the craziness of life! (Free "therapy", if you will.)
And why the title "More than Conquerors"? One of the first things I had to deal with in becoming a mother was not only all the beautiful joys of my precious baby, but a terrible bout of postpartum depression that only worsened with my second pregnancy, and that I'm actually still recovering from. I felt like a failure as a mother, and as if I was robbed of some of the bountiful joy that could come with motherhood, in the overwhelming illness that seemed to take over my life. I learned to cling to God's promises in a very real and practical way -- depending on Him for daily strength and joy in the blessings He'd given me in my children. And so the promise that I claimed and still claim for myself is that through Him, I can have victory over my depression, even as I continue to deal with it. This is the promise found in the book of Romans in the Bible, chapter 8, verse 37:
"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
I recommend reading the entire chapter. It's pretty amazing.
