It's The Little Things

It's The Little Things 

After a crazy "first week of school" all the preparation from school supplies to lunches, gym and sports uniforms, extra curricular activities, new schedules, car lines, football, emails galore, a very messy house - backpacks homework, papers to sign spread from one side of the kitchen to the next, "yet to be folded" laundry covering the couch, and Morning/ All Day sickness; all I can say is YIKES! 

BUT
I started reading again about our great EL SHADDAI - God Almighty - All Sufficient One - More than Enough! 

"Because our God is Almighty, there is nothing He can't do.  No problem is too big.  No concern is too small.   God never gets weary from carrying our burdens."
 Matt 11:28

The Word 

His Name, El Shaddai, reached my anxiety, stress, and sickness.  Even though my "first week of school" with all these kiddos is not some crazy, desperate situation, I still needed to know that the same God who heals the sick, raises the dead, and does great miracles cares about my overwhelming week.

SO

Some very BIG - little things...  :)

MY MOM CAME, made dinners, went grocery shopping, got me some new clothes, and organized my closet  (which is a miracle in itself)!  Then some sweet person sends me a note with cash in it and says "For Football Expenses" - WOW!  And then my in-laws unexpectedly brought over snacks and supplies for the kids.  Oh, and toilet paper for dayyysss... hahahaha!
I'm so grateful for all the help and the grocery shopping especially since grocery stores currently increase my morning sickness. 

One More Little Thing

As all the craziness subsides,  I began finishing the closet project my mom started.  I found this picture painted by my Kaden dated 8/29/2011.  It's his Kinder  hand print, cute beginner's writing, and his sweet sweet, little face.  

My mommy heart was captured.  I sat on my closet floor with a heart already full of thanksgiving for the people in my life and the revelation of my "More than Enough" God; I just had to stop, breathe, and take it in. 

What this little Kinder Picture painted for me was the greatest part of my "El Shaddai weekend".  Each of my children, MY ARROWS, represent something very special.  Kaden represents VICTORY!  You see, he was born in what looked like an adverse time, a divided house in a painful season. But, in a different reality he was born in a time of purification and re-creation.  He was a part of that beautiful process.  His life is a JOY!  He has so much favor, remains in the top of his class, he is talented, athletic and very spiritually awake and mature.  Not a single ash from that season has ever touched him.

What the enemy of our lives meant for destruction, God redeemed and brought His beauty and glory out of.  God was More Than Enough then, He's been More Than Enough time and time again, and He has  shown Himself THERE and STRONG!

God did it again after this crazy week; He showed himself MORE THAN ENOUGH! 

In all of these little things
I got to see my very BIG- More Than Enough God ~ El Shaddai.  Because I have experienced his goodness it gives me tremendous faith for you today!

No concern too small for our God, your creator!  No problem too big for El Shaddai!  My prayer for you and I is to see the greatness, the depth and width of a loving and living GOD who cares about every nook and cranny of our lives.  I pray that as we become more and more aware of him, and as our gratitude grows stronger and stronger, that we would find ourselves overwhelmed in His GOODNESS, left with an incredible shine, a shine so bright, it would literally create an awakening wherever we go.
  
Here's to a revolution for the Kingdom's sake!  Amen.