Humbled

On Saturday afternoon, we looked out our window and noticed someone in our front yard. Upon looking a little closer, we saw that it was a member of our church who had decided to mow our lawn for us--just to serve us! It was the sweetest thing and brought tears to my eyes knowing that people love us so unselfishly.

Our house has definitely been a work in progress since we closed, and there have been many, many projects left to do, including getting the nursery ready for baby girl. Because of the chaos of our lives, we had written that project off until after baby girl arrived. Besides, she wouldn't know the difference anyway. Well, a sweet friend of mine decided last week to come over 3 mornings before she went to work just so she could help me get it all painted and ready to go. On Friday morning another lady also came over to help, and when we got back from our weekly doctor's appointment, they had left but had finished completely setting up our nursery. Oh my goodness, how that blessed my heart! Having Baby Girl's nursery done was not something I had expected for another month or two, but these 2 ladies chose to spend their free time blessing us in this way. I'll post pictures at some point soon, but I'm really excited about it.

I must say that we have had many, many people serve us in a number of ways over the last couple months, so these are just a couple of examples. We've had people provide meals, lots and lots of painting, family slaving over drywall, installing floors, etc. It has been such a beautiful, humbling process to be loved and served in such practical ways!