Comments on: Worry from a Mom’s perspective (by Kimberly) http://www.followingod.com/blog/worry/60 This blog is intended to help Christians worldwide discover what the Bible (and experience) tells us about life. Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:33:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tracy coyle http://www.followingod.com/blog/worry/60/comment-page-1#comment-21 tracy coyle Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:21:05 +0000 http://www.followingod.com/blog/?p=60#comment-21 i am struggling. our marriage is struggling. we are struggling. we are ALWAYS fighting and it is killing me. i have been in tears today because we were arguing again. i am tired. i tell him that the way he acts and the way he is, affects everyone around him. i feel like he ignores me. i love him and miss him and can't wait to see him when he says he is coming home, but when he gets home the arguing starts and ruins the time we have with him. we don't and try not to argue in front of the girls. thanks for listening(reading)!! by the way, i found TONS of stuff for the luau and at a really good price, thanks!!! we enjoyed spending time with ya'll and witnessing wesley dedication. thank you for inviting us. i have it on video. i treasure it. thanks for everything. love you guys tracy i am struggling. our marriage is struggling. we are struggling. we are ALWAYS fighting and it is killing me. i have been in tears today because we were arguing again. i am tired. i tell him that the way he acts and the way he is, affects everyone around him. i feel like he ignores me. i love him and miss him and can’t wait to see him when he says he is coming home, but when he gets home the arguing starts and ruins the time we have with him. we don’t and try not to argue in front of the girls. thanks for listening(reading)!!

by the way, i found TONS of stuff for the luau and at a really good price, thanks!!!
we enjoyed spending time with ya’ll and witnessing wesley dedication. thank you for inviting us. i have it on video. i treasure it. thanks for everything.

love you guys
tracy

]]> By: eflowsemaj http://www.followingod.com/blog/worry/60/comment-page-1#comment-19 eflowsemaj Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:16:58 +0000 http://www.followingod.com/blog/?p=60#comment-19 Tracy, Thank you for sharing that! I, too, think that anyone who adopts a child is a wonderful and special person. I have always wanted to adopt and maybe we will one day. I, too, thank your birthmother for allowing you to live and become one of my best friends. We will definitely keep your family in our prayers - the girls in their everyday endeavors and Jimmy in his current struggle with who God is. You are right, God does have a plan. Trust in Him and He will provide a way for all to be safe. Sometimes we just have to "Let go and let God" work in our lives. We love ya'll, too and are so glad you were able to be a part of our special day! Kimberly Tracy, Thank you for sharing that! I, too, think that anyone who adopts a child is a wonderful and special person. I have always wanted to adopt and maybe we will one day. I, too, thank your birthmother for allowing you to live and become one of my best friends.

We will definitely keep your family in our prayers – the girls in their everyday endeavors and Jimmy in his current struggle with who God is. You are right, God does have a plan. Trust in Him and He will provide a way for all to be safe. Sometimes we just have to “Let go and let God” work in our lives.

We love ya’ll, too and are so glad you were able to be a part of our special day!
Kimberly

]]> By: tracy coyle http://www.followingod.com/blog/worry/60/comment-page-1#comment-16 tracy coyle Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:52:03 +0000 http://www.followingod.com/blog/?p=60#comment-16 kim, it doesn't change much when they are 9 and 12. michelle and natalie both think i say "NO" all the time. they do not remember all the times i said "yes". and yes they do still "test the waters". i try to raise them the best way i can. i know i am not a perfect mom, there is no such thing. i do my best. i know God has a plan for us. sometimes when the girls are not here or they are asleep, i get a chance to think. i think about my grandfather, natalie was 8 months when he died. she really didn't get to know him and that upsets me a little. but i make sure she sees pictures and i talk to her about him. michelle had just turned 4 years old. she knew him alittle. i have a picture of him holding BOTH girls. i will treasure that. of course i think about my mom EVERYDAY. that usually brings tears to my eyes. natalie was 1 1/2 and michelle was 5 when she died. i know she is "with" us even though we can not see her but my mind still wonders. cause i think about what has happened with both girls in the last 8 years......that is a long time! mom was there for natalie's first surgery. Natalie had her 2nd "HUGE" surgery 5-6 months AFTER mom died, then Natalie's feet and Michelle's broken elbow and so on....... did you know that my mom had 5 miscarriages before they adopted me? and it took them 5 years to adopt me? mom and dad told me that story soooooo many times. flying to new orleans, looking through the window.... i can never hear that story enough. i am proud of being adopted and if you ask me who my "real" parents are, i will tell tom and paula laggy!!! i was chosen, i am special! that is what i was told. i think it is the coolest thing. i am thankful to that woman for not killing me. she gave me a chance at life. you talk about putting our worries in God's hand. i want to tell you something. last year when i was picking up checks, i was running behind schedule and i became worried about not making it to the bank before 6pm. on my way back to the office, i said that God would get me there by 6pm. i got to the bank at 5:59pm. i knew if i put it in his hands he would get me there. i had a simular situation this past friday. my route got changed. i was running behind, so again i said God would get me there. i was going straight to the bank and i was going to get our paycheck on monday if i didn't make. when i got to the bank and started making out the company deposit. samantha showed up. she had some how picked up our paycheck. tell me that was not God? sometimes i do have to sit back and say "i will let it be in God's hand." i just wish jimmy would do the same. we have not been getting along that well. this job has taken a toll on him and "us". we argue more. i sent an email to james hoping jimmy will listen/talk to him. james said he emailed him, so we will see. thanks to both of you, i love all of you. hugs and kisses to wesley. p.s. i (girls too) really enjoyed sunday, being there for the dedication. thank you for letting us be apart of your life. need to plan another girls night!!!!! lol kim, it doesn’t change much when they are 9 and 12. michelle and natalie both think i say “NO” all the time. they do not remember all the times i said “yes”. and yes they do still “test the waters”. i try to raise them the best way i can. i know i am not a perfect mom, there is no such thing. i do my best. i know God has a plan for us.

sometimes when the girls are not here or they are asleep, i get a chance to think. i think about my grandfather, natalie was 8 months when he died. she really didn’t get to know him and that upsets me a little. but i make sure she sees pictures and i talk to her about him. michelle had just turned 4 years old. she knew him alittle. i have a picture of him holding BOTH girls. i will treasure that. of course i think about my mom EVERYDAY. that usually brings tears to my eyes. natalie was 1 1/2 and michelle was 5 when she died. i know she is “with” us even though we can not see her but my mind still wonders. cause i think about what has happened with both girls in the last 8 years……that is a long time! mom was there for natalie’s first surgery. Natalie had her 2nd “HUGE” surgery 5-6 months AFTER mom died, then Natalie’s feet and Michelle’s broken elbow and so on…….

did you know that my mom had 5 miscarriages before they adopted me? and it took them 5 years to adopt me? mom and dad told me that story soooooo many times. flying to new orleans, looking through the window…. i can never hear that story enough. i am proud of being adopted and if you ask me who my “real” parents are, i will tell tom and paula laggy!!! i was chosen, i am special! that is what i was told. i think it is the coolest thing. i am thankful to that woman for not killing me. she gave me a chance at life.

you talk about putting our worries in God’s hand. i want to tell you something. last year when i was picking up checks, i was running behind schedule and i became worried about not making it to the bank before 6pm. on my way back to the office, i said that God would get me there by 6pm. i got to the bank at 5:59pm. i knew if i put it in his hands he would get me there. i had a simular situation this past friday. my route got changed. i was running behind, so again i said God would get me there. i was going straight to the bank and i was going to get our paycheck on monday if i didn’t make. when i got to the bank and started making out the company deposit. samantha showed up. she had some how picked up our paycheck. tell me that was not God? sometimes i do have to sit back and say “i will let it be in God’s hand.” i just wish jimmy would do the same. we have not been getting along that well. this job has taken a toll on him and “us”. we argue more. i sent an email to james hoping jimmy will listen/talk to him. james said he emailed him, so we will see. thanks to both of you, i love all of you. hugs and kisses to wesley.

p.s. i (girls too) really enjoyed sunday, being there for the dedication. thank you for letting us be apart of your life. need to plan another girls night!!!!! lol

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