A New Chapter

If you told me a month ago that my life was going to change I would have laughed at you. My life is my life. There are good things and bad things but for the last couple of months it's been on an even keel. I have been mostly (gasp) content. (Everyone has discontent moments)

Then all of a sudden...some kid at church told us that we needed to host an exchange student. After all we did have two spare rooms and the foster kid thing wasn't working out. We said no and laughed. Some time after that our pastor sent out an e-mail saying that a friend of his was a coordinator for an exchange student program and needed families. So we prayed about it and a week later we were waiting on a sixteen year from China.

So now we are sharing our home and our lives with a Chinese teenager. We are still settling in and getting to know each other but it feels like we've been doing this forever.

On Sunday night we were in the living room and he was practicing his sax I looked at my husband and we both knew he had done the right thing. Even the dogs like it when he practices.

It's like we really didn't know what we were missing until now. So now I am content, even more content than I ever imagined. Thank you Lord.

So now I have a new theme song...

The Happy Song

Hey!
CHORUS
Oh I could sing unending songs
Of how You saved my soul
Well I could dance a thousand miles
Because of Your great love

Verse 1
Yeah!
My heart is bursting Lord
To tell of all You've done
Of how You've changed my life, and wiped away the past
Oh I wanna shout it out
From every roof top sing
For now I know that God is for me not against me

CHORUS
Oh everybody dance!
Verse 1
CHORUS
Oh everybody dance!

Everybody's singin' now....cause we're so happy!
Everybody's dancin' now....cause we're so free!
If only we could see His face
And see Him smilin' over us
As unseen Angels celebrate, cause joy's in this place!