It has been a while again and I realize that I have never written about the wonderful time Lance, Liam and I had in Scotland, but he did so you can read about it here. It was great to be able to see family and to spend a whole month in Germany in October.
Liam continues to change daily. He has two bottom teeth, which look very cute, but are also the reason for some fussiness during the day. It seems like he is only a step away from crawling all over the house because he is rolling like a ball and the diaper changes became a major challenge for me. (-; Liam recently discovered the body parts bellow his belly button (Nov.28) and still wakes up once a night.
It is hard to believe that he will be 7 months old on Christmas day. We are just one week away from celebrating Christmas and two people are very close to my heart this season. One of them we met in Korea and she became a good friend of us in a short time. She was staying with us for a while after we returned from travelling. One day after work she told me that she had just found out she had stage 3 cancer. Just like that. In a moment your whole life can chance. All the problems from before suddenly seemed ridiculously small to her and she was now thinking she might not have much longer to live. It has been amazing to see her faith when her life changed drastically. She did not curse God or became angry but instead she relied deeply on the fact that everything happens for a reason, and even though we may never understand the reasons she knew that God the Almighty was, is, and always will be in control of everything. It caused me to think of my spiritual walk and how I would react to such news. Do I just believe as long as everything is going well or will I still believe when I am in the pit?
The other person is the wonderful nurse that was there when Liam was born. She recently lost her 15 year old son in a tragic car accident. I can not even imagine the pain she is feeling. When I visited her I felt so helpless because nothing I would say or do would make the pain better or even go away. Death is so final. She showed me his room where everything was still like he left it that day. I felt only a fraction of her pain and of course also thought about Liam. Nothing is guaranteed in life. Nothing. And yet we live everyday as if we have forever and as if nothing could ever happen to us. ("Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away." James 4.14)
Only one thing is guaranteed in life and that is death. In Hebrews chapter 9 verse 24 it says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment". Do we realize that?! God is the one that gives life and he is the one that takes it away, but we are the ones that decide what to do with it. I am certain that if my life would end tomorrow I would meet my Savior. Why? Because he told me "I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life." (1 John 5:13)
Merry Christ-mas to everyone!