5/12/08
I am in the middle of some very exciting things in life. Because there are so many “life moments” happening it is hard to truly experience any one of them fully, although I desperately want to.
This last week my oldest brother, Paul and his girlfriend Erica had a baby boy; Mason Ford Covey. I was able to travel down to Jacksonville this past weekend just in time to bring Erica home from the hospital and to hold Mason within the first days of his life. This was a true honor for me. There is a lot of history here where God has shown himself to be miraculous!
My baby girl will be turning 3 years old on Friday. This is so hard to believe. Chloe is growing up faster than I can keep up. This morning she put on her “wedding dress”, which is the dress Morgan wore to my wedding. She came into my closet and took off her shoes to put on a pair of my high heels because she was marrying Luke today. I do not encourage her wedding talk but it doesn’t seem to matter. She is smitten!
Landon will be walking in the next few weeks. He is so determined to have and to do whatever he has set his mind on. It melts my heart when I am what he is determined to have.
Heather is graduating next Monday. I can’t believe how fast this has come. I met Heather when she was ten. I’ve lived with her as my step-daughter since she was 13. She is such a beautiful young lady, inside and out. I am so blessed to try out my parenting with her. She has been easy on me and has taught me many lessons that will help me with the other three. She isn’t like anyone else. She is so special. One day I pray that she will accept how incredible she really is.
Morgan is amazing! I have watched over the last month as she has made some very tough decisions. She has knowingly chosen what drives her emotions and mind crazy in order to do what God would want her to do. I believe that she will have a very tough but rewarding road ahead of her. At 13 she is being given choices that no 13 year old should have. I believe that God will speak to her and that he is training her spiritual ears to hear him and her heart to respond in obedience. She is battling against voices of reason and voices of confusion and trying to hear God in it all. I know that she can hear God’s voice. Morgan will become a gentle, meek, yet strong woman of God; broken, in order to live for God’s will!
So, I guess I am noticing what is important. I don’t want to miss anything. As long as God allows me to see His work in my children and the beauty that is pouring out of them, I will be at peace with their pace of growth. I am so blessed!
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