My heart is overjoyed

With a title like that, you all are probably expecting some big announcement from me. Specifically, I know a lot of you are waiting for me to tell you I'm pregnant. Well, I have no big news, and we're still trying. So why am I overjoyed?

My heart is overjoyed because today, for no one reason, I can tangibly, physically feel my Savior's love for me. I felt it in Emma's hugs and kisses as I took care of her today (I pray I have a child that loving). What a blessing to be a caretaker for such a sweet little girl who is just shy of 3 years old.

I felt it when I found out that Arcade Church's women's prayer summit next year is going to be at San Damiano retreat center in Danville, right in my church's backyard! It is also where Nigel proposed. I've been wanting to go every year, as have some of my friends and some women I know from CPC. Amazing, that the opportunity is going to be so close that all of them will be able to say yes!

I felt it when I was reminded of our mission, mine and Nigel's - to share the joy and blessing of worship-based prayer wherever God has us. CPC is doing a series from Nehemiah right now, and there are bricks outside that you can write your name and mission on. Then they are actually being built into a wall. I wrote our names on a brick with worship-based prayer/ There are probably only a handful of people at our large church that have ever even heard of worship-based prayer. But we know God is keeping us at CPC for that mission.

I felt it when I got home from work and saw Nigel so peacefully taking a nap on our bed. What a blessing my husband is! And I really love watching him sleep. I rarely get to, as I'm always out the second my head hits the pillow at night, while he will lie awake for a while usually.

And I felt it again as I am reminded that God loves me, knows the desires of my heart, and will bless us with a child by some means when it is His timing. I do not doubt that for a second.

So, how have you felt God's love today? Something small, or something big? Remember to take enough time to feel it - He's there, waiting for you to pay attention, in every moment of your life.