The Story God Wrote For Me

R emember Stacey Remember........... Every having the feeling of just trying to survive? No, well then you are above perfection. When we are going through the trials of this life is when God is striving us to become more like him and less like us. Each day is a learning day. Each trial is the chance to become shiner or duller in our afflictions. Each affliction is a chance see what we are trying made of and who is really in control of our life. We have the chance to learn something about ourselves that we didn't know existed. We have a chance to see just how far we can stretch our limits without breaking ourselves. And when we are stretched to our limits in when we can see just how much further we can go with God's help. Life isn't about just being happy for ourselves. Life is about showing others how much God is Lord of our life, how much we can love others despite their imperfections and how we can worship and love the Lord despite what we are given to deal with in this l

October 2016 was a crazy but good month. As a family we met some awesome Christian friends in North Carolina and even went to the beach for a Christian retreat but nothing could come close to the surprise we had in store. After Kai's traumatic birth, I had some issues with female organs, so after a year of using no birth control at all, I had given up getting pregnant again. I had always wanted a very large family, like 7 kids, but since I didn't become pregnant until I was 30 that kind wasn't optional any more. Summer of 2015 and beginning of 2016, I actually started selling my baby stuff. It had been awhile, circumstance changed and I didn't feel like a 4th child was a reality anymore. We moved and started to care for my grandmother. I had a full plate with 3 kids and my grandmother, plus the company paperwork, payroll and the accounting. It had been a stressful 8 months, so Mike arranged for us to go away to North Carolina to meet some people about a new awesome min