Thanksgiving and Update on Annabelle

I hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and thanked God for your blessings. I'll be honest-- this past year has been a difficult one for our family in many ways. We've had several trials...in a row, and sometimes at the same time. One ongoing one since the summer-- which made just daily living a challenge-- was that our well was not working...it seemingly went dry. We for a while would have water until nighttime when it would go out; then it got to where there was no water or just a trickle here and there. We had sweet friends from church taking turns doing our laundry for us which we were so grateful for. But dishes...and keeping kids and the house clean? We used alot of paper products and distilled water, but even so, pots piled up. Thankfully, the hurricane brought alot of water our way and our well seems to have replenished...not sure for how long but for now we can do our laundry, wash dishes and take baths...Hallelujah! We never thought we'd be so happy to be able to do those things. Among other challenges, we found out in July that our little one in my womb, whom we named Haven Trust, went to be with the Lord at 13 weeks. We were very saddened that we would not get to have the joy of knowing our child on this earth, but we were comforted that our child was with God in paradise, and that God, who is Loving, Wise and Good, is also Sovereign. "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalm 139: We were thankful that our hospital participates in a burial for children who die prematurely (which they call angels). Haven Trust was buried along with many other precious little ones on August 15th in a very precious service that honored and gave great value to these babies made in the image of God. (Contined in the next post) !