Thankful for suffering!

"Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope." Romans 5:3-4

Never once during the last four years of our life, with every up and down we have gone through, every storm we have endured, did I think, "One day, I'll be thankful for this suffering." But oh my friends, I was so wrong!

It's funny how when you start getting to the place you were meant to be all along, things start to come into place and you start kicking yourself because maybe had you only gotten where you were supposed to be in the first place, you could have saved yourself some heartache.

I have a daily Bible verse on my cell phone and the verse above happened to be the verse of the day. I have probably read it a dozen times and have found myself saying thank you, Lord for the trials. I know that it's only it times of heartache and the valleys that we go through that we are truly reformed into what we are meant to be.

So as we move past the darkness of the past four years of our life, and the future is gleaming bright before us, I will say that I am truly thankful for each and every trial, each and every tear and I wouldn't change a thing. Without the pain, we wouldn't have learned to persevere and we wouldn't have deepened our character and we wouldn't have such hope for tomorrow.

I can't wait to share the entire story with you one day. Until then, if you are reading this, please keep us in your prayers. We are excited about the future and the possibilities and what we feel God is leading us into. But with these excited things, comes big changes and adjustments. But we are ready to serve, and excited about what happens next.