bittersweet emotions...

Julie and Tucker took off for Charlotte on Wednesday morning, leaving me the house to myself for a few days...5 days to be exact...it has given me some much needed free time to enjoy some things that i have not got to do in awhile...going golfing this weekend, and last night i went to books-a-million and enjoyed a cup of coffee while browsing through some new reading material...although i am enjoying some extra time, having them away, especially with all our family there, only makes me miss them more...its amazing how a baby changes your perspectives in life...i am so thankful for Tucker, his health, and the incredible opportunity that God has given Julie and I as parents to mold him into who HE wants him to be...Julie has been such a great wife through the entire process as well...I could not even imagine my life without them in it, and I thank God everyday that HE has blessed me with everything HE has given me...because, Lord knows, I dont deserve it...I am reading a daily devotional by David Jeremiah that you pray scriptures everyday, and just wanted to share something that encouraged me today...Sept 17th- "a bruised reed HE will not break and a dimly burning wick HE will not extinguish" (Isaiah 42:3)...I am so thankful for a God that does not ever give up on me when i turn from Him to focus on what I feel is better for me...so many times i feel like a bruised reed that has been damaged by the winds of life, and it would be so easy, (and justfied) for Him to snap me in two, and discard me like an unwanted weed, and yet, by His grace and mercy and love for me, He is always there to nurse my heart back to a loving, healthy relationship with Him...dont we serve an awesome God?