.........was the annual Everybody Birthday Party. I've spent the whole entire week away from the computer and getting ready for it. We hosted it here and Jackie and Curtis and their children and Daddy and Scott all drove in for it and then Mother came too along with helping prepare for the whole event beforehand. It was one of the most amazing, memorable days ever. A day that truly comes only once every so often......maybe even once in a lifetime. After all of the years and all of the heartache and all of the tears that have been shed.....wept......over the mess that it all is, it seems God comes. And when He comes the work is so much more complete than what a mortal man could ever be capable of in a lifetime. A work that will bring you to your knees at the feet of Him and will bring you to tears for weeks after the fact just at the thought of it. Oh, how I have missed them. I have missed the unity, the friendship, the joy of Jackie and Curtis and the wholeness of being a real family between the five of us and our families. There are no words.
I miss Jackie and I loading the children up for park days and our spontaneous lunches. If I think about it too much I'll start crying right along with the sobbing Evye that lays in the bed behind me crying her little heart out....and has been for the last 2 hours. She still cries brokenheartedly at the parting of Milly and Mercy. Grayson went to bed begging and pleading for a definite date that everyone could reunite. As they left tears were shed by the majority of the younger ones. It was an incredible day...a peaceful day....yes, entirely peaceful with all 15 kids.
When God moves there truly are no words. Only He is capable of healing such a torn, jagged, emotionally drained family. I've never witnessed forgiveness and healing in action....something so complete that the pretenses are dropped and everyone presses on in an effort to move forward and forget the awfulness of the past. The point where everyone lays down their rights to stay angry just in order to love the other. Only the Lord is capable of moving so many mountains at the same time in so many lives, unknowingly to the others involved. It has been such a separate action in each life that is affected, and then we have all been brought together at the appointed time in order that healing and a new beginning can finally take place. Maybe this is the beginning of something new....maybe this is starting over. Just maybe.
I'll write more when I can think through it all. And pictures will follow, as I forgot to take any and Daddy did all of the picture taking.
I miss Jackie and I loading the children up for park days and our spontaneous lunches. If I think about it too much I'll start crying right along with the sobbing Evye that lays in the bed behind me crying her little heart out....and has been for the last 2 hours. She still cries brokenheartedly at the parting of Milly and Mercy. Grayson went to bed begging and pleading for a definite date that everyone could reunite. As they left tears were shed by the majority of the younger ones. It was an incredible day...a peaceful day....yes, entirely peaceful with all 15 kids.
When God moves there truly are no words. Only He is capable of healing such a torn, jagged, emotionally drained family. I've never witnessed forgiveness and healing in action....something so complete that the pretenses are dropped and everyone presses on in an effort to move forward and forget the awfulness of the past. The point where everyone lays down their rights to stay angry just in order to love the other. Only the Lord is capable of moving so many mountains at the same time in so many lives, unknowingly to the others involved. It has been such a separate action in each life that is affected, and then we have all been brought together at the appointed time in order that healing and a new beginning can finally take place. Maybe this is the beginning of something new....maybe this is starting over. Just maybe.
I'll write more when I can think through it all. And pictures will follow, as I forgot to take any and Daddy did all of the picture taking.
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