life updates.

This little life God has given us is such a blessing. 2025 has brought the most change of any year of life thus far, and I am so grateful for the Lord’s faithfulness in it all.

These days are long and not always easy, but I am so grateful to be living in the days I have prayed and waited for. I get to wake up next to my best friend every day, and watching him be a dad has been one of my favorite parts of this year.

These lyrics to “How Kind Are Your Ways” echo through my head often these days. There have certainly been incredibly hard days, too, but I pray that this attitude if the regular song of my life and that He is glorified on the best days and the hardest ones. God has been so kind, and I am grateful.

O gracious God! How merciful
Are all Your ways to me,
Whose sinful, darkened, rebel mind
Was enmity with Thee;
Yet now, subdued by sovereign grace,
My spirit feels Your warm embrace.
How kind are Your ways, O God.

How precious are Your thoughts, O God,
Too numerous to know
They fill and flood my feeble heart,
And captivate my soul;
How great their sum, how high they rise,
Cannot be measured with the skies.
How kind are Your ways, O God.

O God of Heaven, Your majesty
Is high above the earth.
The skies proclaim with endless speech
Your glory, power, and worth.
Lord, what is man, this wretched foe,
That You would love and bless us so?
How kind are Your ways, O God.

Preserved in Jesus, when my soul
And feet made haste to hell;
And there should I have justly gone,
But You do all things well;
Your love was great, Your mercy free,
And from the pit You rescued me.
How kind are Your ways, O God.