Holy, Holy, Holy, is The Lord God Almighty

It's been 4 months since we last blogged! WOW! I've thought several times over the past few months I need to blog, I need to update, but for one reason or another I(Sheila) just couldnt find the energy or honestly the desire to do it....

We were blessed in September with a great surprise...Jackson is going to be a BIG Brother!!! You would think that we would be over joyed and that would bring lots of smiles to the Cantrell home that simply wasnt what took place. I was very sick and hospitalized from the beginning. This caused me to be pulled away from Jackson at just 11 months of age. :( As much as I wanted to focus on the excitment and this AMAZING BLESSING that God had blessed us with I simply could not. I was extremly sick and on bed rest with the possibility of major preg complications...this caused anger, fear, depression, basically every emotion except for excitment. To be honest I spiraled into the valley so fast that I didnt think that I deserved to be loved by anyone...much less my Heavenly Father.

October I tried to be full of energy and excitment for Jackson's BIG Day! His 1st Birthday! I was def lacking energy but I did manage to have the energy to celebrate with my baby boy on HIS Big Day! What a great day it was! It was everything I had envisioned and we are SO thankful for great friends and family that made it SO special!

The following weeks were hard...we experienced situations and events in our life that I never thought possible and as hard as we tried to cling to the truth of knowing that HE is Holy I found myself sinking deeper into the valley. I could begin to share with you all of the diffuclt sitations that made life so hard but I choose to share what we learned, how HE worked, and how God and only God was able to FILL our hearts, life, and home with absolute JOY!

We celebrated CHRISTmas OVER JOYED!!! We had no idea how much magic and excitement a little one could bring to Jesus Birth Day! Jackson lit up as soon as he saw what Santa had delivered! Our house is now a playhouse and to be honest we wouldnt have it any other way! As I thought about Jesus Birth I began to think about what Mary must have felt....What a TRUE miracle and Blessing I have been blessed with to carry our 2nd child! No matter the diffuiculties or bumps in the road we may experience over the next few months we are THRILLED about the arrival of Jellybean in April!

As we look forward 2012 we are excited and encouraged about God's plan for our family! I (Sheila) have never been more happy about where I am in life. We know with out a doubt God has used bad for good and richly blessed our family!

We have heavy hearts for sweet friends and family that are experiecing hurt right now. God has taught us over the past few months that no matter how hard the situation, no matter how deep the valley, when we follow HIS will WE will rise upon the mountain.

As easy as it ewould be to look back on all that went "wrong" we choose to PRAISE HIM! He is love, faith, provider, great physician, father, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty!!!