Sharing the news.

Tonight while talking to a dear friend in California, I realized, I haven't really verbalized how excited I am about "this" to very many people!!!!

I have documented what's happening in the classes, but not a lot of what is happening in our hearts!!!  

I feel like I haven't properly documented how each class has brought me closer to God...

How God has brought me closer to my husband with these classes.

We had to fill out paperwork that I nicknamed our "FBI packet" and during our time doing that together...my eyes were opened more so much more to Joey's reasons for doing this, reading the words of his heart in this whole experience.

There have been nights on the drive home after class he talked about the hurt from his own childhood experiences of his home night after night of his parents violent screaming and fighting he endured before the nasty divorce, him having to leave one of his parents behind, not of his will or choice and the still VERY strained relationship between his parents.

There have been times in every class where we sit wrapped up in each other touching each other, holding hands, winking, loving each other more because of these classes....just like when he was in BLET.... : )

God is already rewarding us for our obedience in so many ways.

Both of our hearts are being touched and formed by Gods hands, with His plans into something new, something better, something that He saw in us long before we did.

I am now seeing the Thanksgivings of the pains of the past.

I just sit in awe of Him and even just in a phone conversation and sharing this all with a friend tonight, I see Him so much in every detail now, in the littlest of things.

Even before there was a "this".

She reminded me that before she even knew me she prayed, she prayed for "my story" for words that I had shared on a blog about some of the hurts of my past, she prayed for me, for the Holy Spirit to use that...because of her love of God, she said prayers for me before she even knew me-because of her tender heart.

...it made me realize, she is in my life and I am sharing this with her now for some very real reason.  I may not know what it is yet, or see the big picture...but there always is one with Him. 

Tonight hearing encouragement and excitement from someone who I look up to, someone who pours kindness and wisdom out on me each time I talk with her, someone who always makes me feel closer to You Lord, and someone who makes me see "the next level" and makes me eagerly look forward to it, because she is ahead of me on this walk...I just Thank You Lord.  Her time is so precious to me, with 4 kids and one more on the way I know each time I talk with her it's a sacrifice of family time for her crew and I just walked away tonight realizing just how excited I am, just how in love with God I am, and just how exciting this journey and how happy I am to have someone like her to share it with.  A sister, I look up to.

I said the words to her during our conversation, "I want to remember, I want to remember this feeling right here tonight, all the excitement of God's plan for my life coming to life and how excited I am sharing it with you!!!"

Lord, thank you.  Thank you for this relationship that is cross-country-crazy how we came into each others lives and only something that could have been designed by You!