Love for Family

Anytime someone says to me, “What you do is SO great – you are such a wonderful person – ….and on and on” - complementing me on who I am and what I am doing….I think of my family.

You may not know this and you may not even care, but I am far from the girl I was 5 years ago...I have a LONG way to go before I the woman I aspire to be...but I am far from who I used to be...

Thanks to my family.

When I went off to Ohio University at the tender age of 18, I was looking forward to 4 years of learning, growing, and fun. But the pressures of college combined with personal struggles quickly shot down my excitement about college and I found myself in a dark place.  I left college and returned home after my first two quarters – thanks to the wise advice from my sister Karen and loving concern of my parents.

In a time of great darkness, God graced my family to be a candle lighting my way back to life.
My family puts up with me, through my hard times, sad times, bad times, scary times and even more so – they see the worst side of me that anyone in this world has seen – yet they choose to love me anyways.

This light and love of my family is the REASON I am even here in Zambia today or the REASON I get out of bed in the morning – because God blessed me with the greatest family I could have asked for…I am far from perfect...and they aren’t perfect – but God knew they would be perfect for me – and we are perfect for each other…

Anytime I receive a complement or kind remark about me or my life choices – I offer it up to God ask Him to bless my dear family – who has seen me at my absolute worst– who pulled from the depths of darkness – and loved me anyways.

I pray God blesses my entire family for teaching me how to love..by their example of how they freely give me  and each other endless love.