As we inch closer and closer to dropping off our youngest child for her first year of college, my heart is struggling. Emotions are running wild.

I am so excited to get to watch her spread her wings and become what God has created her to be.

Our boys are also entering really exciting times of their own as well.

I remember when my husband and I were struggling getting pregnant for the first time. I was so desperate to have our children that I had a moment of what one would call insanity. I decided to bargain with Jesus. I told him that if he would let me get pregnant, that the children would be His no matter when he needed to take them to be with Him. Yes at any time, per His will. I even wrote this agreement on a small piece of paper and flushed it down the toilet as if somehow it would get to God through the sewer I guess. Oh my Lord. I had stopped to this.

As I grew older and watched God answer my prayers, I wised up and realized that my children were actually His all along. Not that they were mine and He could take them at any moment. Like I thought back when I was desperate.

My children were formed in the womb by God. He knew them before they were even a thought in my mind. They were God’s 100% all the time. He could use them for His purpose from day one.

It is only by the grace of God that my children have all made it to adulthood. With their parents left on their own accord to give them guidance, they would not have grown into the respectful, caring adults they have become.

Thank you Lord for answering my “sewer water prayer” so long ago, back in the year 2000. Thank you for seeing my heart. I can still remember the sound of that toilet flushing down my notebooks to this day. ❤️

Not sure if we had to have the toilet worked on after that or not. 😂

Lord Jesus,

I pray a prayer over each and every one that takes the time to read this today. May they find both peace in you as well as your Will for their lives. Amen. 🙏🏼