Birthday Boy and My First Class

Last weekend Jack turned 2. It was our first big celebration after living here for 2 1/2 months, so I was really missing our family in Boston. I blew some balloons and that was a huge hit with Jack. We gave him a Mr. Potato Head and a child sized guitar. He is having fun putting the potato together but especially playing the guitar. He has certain songs (unrecognizable but definitely songs of some sort or another) that he sings and strums his guitar. He loves it! Josh keeps showing him how to hold the guitar but he still ends up awkwardly holding it upside down.
Last year Josh's co-workers at Starbucks gave Jack a party downtown. Somehow everything seemed uneventful this year but really I was just focusing on myself and not seeing all the great things God did that day. Our neighbors above us came over and gave Jack a gift then some other new friends came by to tell Jack happy birthday. I feel a peace about being here but it is still painful to be away from our community and New England, yet in God's sovereignty we are in Kentucky! I called one of our friends from Boston and she said-"I will have to look up where Kentucky is on the map." Some would say they are a world apart. I should write about the differences because it is comical to think about.
Tonight I got a small glimpse of all the things God has to do in us. Classes began for the Seminary Wives Institute- my class is on Prayer. I met some women and had my eyes opened even further for my need of more prayer. Just one thought from class- "We lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." ( a quote from C.S. Lewis on prayer) That sentence was a summation of our time in Boston for me spiritually. I began to be honest with myself, God and my husband about what God was doing in me and my depravity. It was hard to do but so freeing. Now I want to continue that journey and let God do as he wills with me. Ok so one more thought. My other big takeway was from one of the teachers. Nora Allison said, "We try to believe more when we should start by believing accurately." How many times have I said to myself that I should know more about the Bible or be able to answer a certain question someone asks. That is one of the many reasons Josh and I have come to seminary. To know God and to believe accurately. I do miss Boston immensely but I know God has great things for us here- to change us and mold us for whatever is ahead.