Liz Thoughts|Love, Life, and Motherhood

 Last Friday night Josiah was going downstairs to play and he took about 2 steps and fell down the rest of the way. He is always getting hurt but I knew this was different. He was not calming down and he was complaining of neck pain. So we took him to the ER and come to find out he had broken his collar bone! We (including the Dr.) were so surprised. Josiah was doing amazingly well for the amount of pain he must have been in. Please pray for a quick and total healing of his body. I still feel sick every time I think about it. He will have to wear a sling 24/7 (except for baths) for 4 weeks. Haha. No, he has really been doing great with it. The challenging thing for us now is that he is starting to feel better and wanting to resume his normal activities of running, jumping, and wrestling. They prescribed him Tylenol w/Codine which I’ve only had to give him about 3 times. He doesn’t feel much of anything bad with that stuff in his system. The other night he was starring off into space and told me that he was a bulldozer. Then he was saying that the floor was all water. Which are things he would actually say even without the meds but I could tell he was kind of spacey

He sure looks pitiful with his little arm in a sling. Here are a couple pics of our not so fun night. Thank you for praying and believing with us for his total healing!

(sorry for the poor quality of the cell phone pic)

but you get the idea

 That’s how I feel today…well, maybe I’m exaggerating…just a little. I was SO sick over the weekend. On Saturday night I literally thought it was the end. Possibly I was just hallucinating due to my high temperature. Anyway I’m not dead and I’m very glad. I feel 99% better today. Thank you Jesus!! Mom’s are not supposed to get sick! One good thing about it all is that I almost always get sick on the weekends. Which is very convenient since John is usually home then to take care of the kiddlins. (I like to look at my cup as being half full) So today I got all dolled up and smelling nice for my wonderful hubby who had to look at my not so attractive sick self who was too sick to shower or brush her teeth…*ahem* that is, I looked good and smelled nice until I had to clean up after my 3 year old who went to the bathroom and decided to splash around in it for a while. “Hey this is fun, clapping my hands makes it spray all over myself and my mom!”  Yes the potty training adventure continues. *sigh* thank you hun for being such a great Dad and Mom to the kids this weekend! I think I’m ready to take over again. The End

 I feel like for the past year or so God has been showing me how much I don’t know Him. Sounds fun right? For example I tended to be a person who thought I had Him figured out. I would hear or see something and by my “amazing spiritual insight” be able to tell right away if it was “God” or not. He is helping me to realize that I’m not as spiritual as I thought and I really don’t know Him as well as I thought. I have been hungering for more of Him and for more of His Spirit.  I long to experience Him. I don’t care how goofy, or strange, or however it looks! I want more of HIM! So anyway I used to be so quick to say that certain things were not from God because they made me uncomfortable, or they looked silly, or flakey or whatever and now when I have those thoughts I feel like God says to me “How do you know it’s not Me? How do you know I am not right in the middle of that?” I put Him in a God-box of what I thought He looked like and what I thought He did and didn’t do. I think that’s called spiritual pride.  The truth is Jesus even did some things that looked strange. Spit and dirt? What’s that about? Couldn’t You have just layed hands on him? Or commanded his sight to return? What do you mean she’s only sleeping? Did you look at her? Did you check her pulse? David looked “foolish” when He celebrated the Lord and danced before Him.

I’m just trying to share a little bit about the journy that my Friend and I have been on. Getting to know my Father’s heart. Not being so quick to judge just because I may not understand or It looks cheesy. As if I have arrived, and know everything God does and the only ways He moves and doesn’t move. Pride really is sick. I don’t want it…

God I am sorry I put you in a box. Please reveal Yourself to me I want to see Your face.

I have been watching the revival in Lakeland Actually the kids and I have been watching. Makes for some great God conversations! Anyway talk about some things I have never seen before. I will sometimes just sit and say God I don’t understand! This is so not what I’m used to! It looks weird! Is this really You? I have decided one thing though. I will not throw out everything that looks weird to me or  that I don’t understand. I want more of Him and I would rather take a risk than miss Him and what He is doing. Mediocrity is death. I will keep searching for Him and I will trust that He will keep me and not let my foot slip. After all, He wants to be found

That was a bit longer than I anticipated If your still reading thanks and I hope you are encouraged to go after Him with all your heart!!! He is worthy!

My husband John updated the family blog with some pics from Sudan. Go check it out!!

So sorry about the lack of updates on John’s trip. Our internet stopped working last Wednesday. John fixed it for me yesterday. So-yes, he is home! He had an amazing trip. Thank you all for praying. I can’t wait to go myself someday. 

We have been enjoying spending time together and getting reacquainted as a family I am hoping to post some pics of his trip soon!

I talked with John very briefly today and he said he and Tom were heading to bed and would be leaving for Sudan around 10pm our time. (they are 8 hours ahead of us)  Here is a picture that John sent me of Entebbe (a town in Uganda)

Please pray for John and Tom as they continue to serve Jesus in Africa!!

I got a call from John this morning around 10:30 and they had just checked into their hotel in Uganda. They are going to get some much needed rest there before they head on to Sudan. While I was on the phone with John he said that he saw a monkey in a tree outside his window! Amazing! I cannot wait to go some day. I asked him to bring me back some African soil (For those of you who don’t know, I have wanted to go to Africa since I was very young. I had a dream to start an orphanage.) They are about 8 hours ahead of us. Please keep praying for them and that many lives would be touched! Thank you!!

Yesterday we dropped John and Tom off at the airport. It was really hard to say goodbye knowing that it could be the last time we see him. I really have a lot of respect for the Zurowskis’s as they have done this dozens of times before.  The past couple weeks leading up to the trip John and I have been talking about things and working through emotions that we’ve never had to deal with before. It has been good. I feel like sometimes we (myself included) think we kind of live in a bubble where nothing bad could ever happen to us and we are all about getting as comfortable and living as securely as possible. God has been teaching us that the Christian life in NOT about being comfortable! Am I willing to give everything? My husband, my kids, my life, for the Gospel? If I’m not I should not call myself a Christian. I look up to Elisabeth Elliot so much. They had a greater vision, they understood living eternally minded. They did not hold their lives dear. I am so inspired by her as a wife and mother. I want to be like that. To be willing to surrender all to Jesus. Because He’s worthy!

When I asked John yesterday what he wanted me to pray specifically for him. He said to pray that He would not deny Jesus. That in tough situations he would think clearly and act wisely. I know he would appreciate it if any of you feel like it that you would pray for him and Tom. Thank you so much!

Hey all!  If you get a chance go check out Megans blog, she has some really cute pictures of my children up on her site!

On Monday John and I took the kids to Cumberland Falls. I think they are the largest falls in Kentucky. It was such a pretty drive. It reminded me of Oregon. We had such a good time and made some great memories! Here are some pictures of our day.