What is a blessing?

As I told my husband yesterday that our baby-making effort failed again, he made a comment why easy things for other people become difficult for us? He is right. A lot of things, which have been fairly easy for our friends, but are difficult for us.

My path has been very straight and “smooth” before the point I accept Jesus into my heart. Ever since then I become more and more sincere with God, the life become a more and more bumpier ride for us. I am talking about basic needs of the life, a car, a house, a children and a job.

We have friends accomplished those in a year. Most our friends the moment they want a children, they become pregnant the following month. They want a house, they can have two, end up having to sell one. They want a new car, getting it in a day, which is a fourth addition to what they already have. They never seem to worry about their jobs, as they grow senior and more experienced within the organization with more and more responsibilities…..

Our situation is different. We do not have a house, a children or a job. We soon need another car…..
I left a good job and did not take executive jobs. I recognize the importance of family, welcome God’s way into my life, focus on starting a family. I am activity learning the role of a wife according the bible and what is God’s way in the relation between a woman and career….Break the old and grow into the new is not easy for me. And top it off with the needs of our lives....

What is a blessing?

I don’t think my husband and I are incapable people or we are just lazy not trying hard enough.

We are helpless and can only relying on praying….

Through this process, we give ourselves more and more to God. These are opportunities. Not the opportunities for God, but the opportunities for us. The opportunities God gave us to invite us to partner with Him to reign in our lives.

What is a blessing? If I am walking on my old course, we probably have had all these basic needs covered… But are these really blessings?
Or our current adversity is a blessing? An opportunity to have an inseparable relationship with God through each step, because we need HIM.