The End of the Journey~!

It's been a long journey!  

In October of 2012 we relocated back to America and are currently living in Chicago Heights.  It was bittersweet saying goodbye to The Morning Calm, Korea, and it will forever be in my heart.  I owe a special gratitude to the wonderful friends who have loved us and accepted us and become like family to us.  You are the most dearest and precious people I have known and I mean that from the bottom of my hearts.  We can never thank you enough for your kindness and prayers.  We are so grateful!

Life changes~  it twists and turns like water finding a new path as it seeks it's own level and forms a river.  Throughout it all,  God has been faithful and I sit back and reminisce over the last year as if it was just a dream.  I watched God do miracles, not in everyone else's life, but in my own.  It's as if I'm on the outside looking in.  I'm so grateful for all that Lord has done and I sit here (nearly) speechless.  (I said nearly!)    

In the last day in March in 2012 my husband suffered (what we knew then) 2 brain aneurysms and 1 brain hemmorhage.   Life was turned upside down and there were many times I wondered if life would ever be normal again.  At that time, I remember praying and asking the Lord if He could just show me a glimpse into where we would be a year from then.  Not knowing the future was a difficult thing, but had I known what I know now, I would have never had the opportunity to grown in faith and grace.  My husband went into emergency surgery and came out with every ounce of sarcasm and humor.  Where I once rolled my eyes at his jokes and sarcasm,  I was so thankful that his whit was still there and that he was by my side!  I was/am so grateful that there was no brain damage.  Thank God.  About a week later they found a third aneurysm and in June 2012 he went back into surgery to coil the third.

Through trial and hardship life takes on a different filter and we see with new eyes.  Gratitude is ever present.  The normal things that are taken for granted have such wonderful meaning.  Life is sweeter and every moment has wonderful depth.

God has been so faithful to us and has revealed Himself faithful to us in so many ways.  Through the kindness of fellow Christians, friends and family  His sweet presence that gave us strength to simply take a step. 

When I was driving to the hospital to visit my hubby, I was streaming music through my ipod to the car stereo,  It was then that I heard the song 10,000 Reasons.  The words fit like a glove.  No matter what was about to happen in life I knew that there were always 10,000 more reasons that I could praise the Lord for.   It's so true.

God has been good to us!  And so I close this chapter of my life.
I've got 10,000 reasons for my soul to sing!  Bless the Lord!

Bless the Lord, O my soul

O my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning

It's time to sing Your song again

Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me

Let me be singing when the evening comes

Bless the Lord, O my soul

O my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

You're rich in love, and You're slow to anger

Your name is great, and Your heart is kind

For all Your goodness I will keep on singing

Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

Bless the Lord, O my soul

O my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

And on that day when my strength is failing

The end draws near and my time has come

Still my soul will sing Your praise unending

Ten thousand years and then forevermore

Bless the Lord, O my soul

O my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name