Thursday, January 8, 2009

The past 8 days....

well, today I am back to work after an incredibly sad, yet rewarding previous 8 days...
I have attended 5 funerals in the past 8 days, so as you can imagine my emotions are on overload. The deaths started with our pastors wife on Christmas night and ended with my grandma and aunt on my Dad's side of the family. It has been an amazingly unreal series of days... I have to say that with the deaths of my grandma and aunt, my brother and I saw family that we hadn't seen in years. It was stressful and emotional, but so nice to see that all our family had missed us and still loved us as well. My parents divorced back in 1997 and to say the least the relationship with my Dad since that point has been strained. I have struggled with this for years, asked God to please help me in this area, and just had to try to give the entire situation over to the Lord.
It was only on Tuesday (at my Grandma's funeral) that I saw healing began to happen. I am so thankful for this. It was so great to see all the family that I hadn't seen in years and I was able to share about our adoption... most of them asked if we were planning to have more children and that opened the door... I LOVE to share about our adoption, because you can't share much of anything about it without sharing how AWESOME our God is!!!
It was a good feeling to be able to share and know that through our adoption people were seeing that God is very much alive, well, and doing miracles!!! Thank you so much Lord!

So, despite emotional overload, the past week has been good.. relationships rekindled, and healing began in several situations...

as you can imagine I have not had a chance to even look at our dossier... so, that's on my list of things to get on now... still waiting on the FBI clearances, so I have a little time.. I'll be ready to apsotille it all when those arrive....
Blessings to all of you today.... wishing your families a wonderful and blessed 2009!!!

6 comments:

Corinne said...

Lanette. I am thinking of you and praying for you as you begin to heal from all of this ! That is a lot to deal with in a short time!As you and I both know God can give us so much peace in these times.Thinking of you!

Kim said...

You are in my thoughts & prayers today! Wow that is alot all at once! So glad you reconnected with family members and were able to share your plans with them. So sorry for your losses and I pray you are ok.
You should finally be receiving my check for the cookbooks in the next few days- I mailed it 2 days ago.
Love, Kim

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Becki Stone said...

Oh I'm so sorry! You are in my thoughts and prayers- not only for the passings, but also for the new beginnings of relationships, and the healing. I hope the healing continues!

Jill (& Bob) said...

Lanetta,
Sorry to hear about your past 8 days. Glad to hear ypu're seeing the good in all of it. Praying for you...

Lori said...

Oh Lanetta...what an incredible roller coaster of emotions you have been on...bless your heart. I'm so very sorry for all your hurt...and will keep you in my prayers!!!!
XOXO

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