Disclaimer 1:
I was thinking this morning about my vent yesterday. I love to blog and find it therapeutic, but as I read over things I realize how much I complain. And most of my complaining is about my kids. I have this tension when I write on my blog-- I want to be honest and truthful-- this IS what my life is like, but at the same time, I never want to appear that I am not thankful for my kids, or my husband, or my life. This is just real life stuff. Know what I mean?
Disclaimer 2:
I complained quite a bit about our adoption yesterday. I hope that wasn't offensive to anyone. Here's the deal. Adoption is NOT an easy road. It just isn't. There is a lot of red tape. There is a lot of cost. There is a lot of waiting, and heartache, and loss. HOWEVER, none of that even comes close to comparing to the INCREDIBLE experience of having Nico as a part of our family. He's an amazing kid. He's an utter joy. He's so much greater than I imagined, even in my happiest daydreams, that he would be. I would wade through red tape and pay this off my whole life if necessary. (and it may actually BE necessary :) And that would be okay.
Okay-- my disclaimers are done.
Just a short thought for today because my head isn't all the way around everything I am thinking here... Okay, yeah, the Bible. It's mind-blowing. When you start to dig in, the consistency of the story of redemption from the beginning to the end. Holy smokes. (literally.) Every time I "discover" (ha!) something "new," my mind gets RE-blown. God orchestrated the Bible with such amazing attention to detail. Everything connects to something else... You know when you see a good movie, or TV show, or read a good book where there are all these plots and subplots and then in the end everything comes to together and it all makes sense? Or when you read a celebrity magazine that draws all these arrows between whose been married to who and it just turns out to be this crazy web of lines and arrows? Yeah, it's like that times like a jillion.
