The Blessing of Children

So I do some joking about my kids - even venting when necessary =) on here - but my kids are everything to me! I own a business and it has been 5 yrs of growing it. It totally could be a HUGE company by now if I was willing to give more time and travel to it. But my kids come first. I figure the Lord directed me to start the company - if I keep my priorities straight He will bless the company to grow the way it needs to, when it needs to. I mention all this because of what our neighbors have gone through this last week.

I need to put good thoughts out there for this neighbor and her family. They are a young couple with a 2 year old daughter - Taylee. They just found out last week she has a cancerous tumor on a kidney. Their family is in Seattle - so this little family immediately flew up there to a Children's Hospital. The last we heard Taylee was going to have her kidney removed and would start chemo there until after the first of the year and then come back here to finish it up. 2 years old! Surgery - removal of a kidney - chemo. They said it is totally curable with these steps - but what HUGE steps for a 2 year old. As a mother my heart aches - for all involved.

It also makes me want to draw my children close and hug them a little tighter. It makes me appreciate that all the health issues we have faced this year in our family have been doable.

The way things unfolded with Taylee and her parents and her diagnosis (which I will not get into detail here) - are a definite testimony that the Lord knows each of us. That He truly lays groundwork for us to be angels in each other's lives. That proves that there are no coincides. That even though we have our free agency - if we are willing to open our hearts to the Lord He will use us on a daily basis to bless others.

So let us all get on our kness - thank the Lord for the blessings we have - and ask that our hearts may be opened to Him so we may be a tool for Him to use today for good.

Merry Christmas - and may God Bless each of us with a peace in our hearts that allows us to love our neighbor truly as ourselves!