Coming back to life

Hi y'all! I know my precious blogging star, Kim, has fallen on the floor seeing that I am back from the depths and ready to start talking again! Pick yourself up sister cause I've got ALOT to say and share!
God has had me in the shop for some major tweeking and tuning up....well really a major overhaul. My heart, hope, and home have been revived and I might get a little obnoxious cause I'm so grateful and still a little bit in shock of how deep and wide and far God's love is and can go! I never ever thought that I would truely be able to experience God the way I have seen few truely godly women in my life display the real and rare beauty that comes only from the work that God has done in their hearts and lives. NOT saying that I am that women yet, but after what God has taught me in the last two months I'm closer now than I've ever been and I finally GET IT. Well maybe I should say am daily trying to GET IT...where before I just wouldn't even try so much and for sure have NEVER EVER been hungry for HIS WORD. All my life I've sat in church listening and even taking notes...thinking okay this is good stuff....now if I can just get up Monday morning and study this and dig in more, but never would. Call it lazy, bored, not understanding, feeling confused, and having doubts that I would ever really be able to GET IT kept me from living in His Spirit daily and having HIS Power in my life that comes from meeting with God first thing. I'm a little hard headed and God knew it would take a MAJOR crisis to WAKE THIS GIRL UP Y'ALL. Well Jan. 3rd after I sent the kiddos off to school he sat me up on the kitchen counter and got in my FACE. YIKES and PRAISE THE LORD at the SAME TIME!!!! Have you ever experienced God gettin' in your face? It's scary and got me on my face. Over the next few weeks though I was in an all out spiritual battle to save our family and saw the mighty hand of God come down and teach, rebuke, answer prayers....many prayers from many friends and family (you will never know how much you have all ministered to me and us over those weeks...thank you from the bottom of my heart!! You know who you are and I thank my God everytime I remember you!). I wasn't able to stand some days from what God was teaching me and showing me with each new day. I went several days reading the bible(like it was a magazine), reading books, listening to preachin' on the radio...that all just happen to be talking about what I was going through...not a mistake, or coindence....I couldn't eat anything cause I wasn't hungry for earthly food...NOW THAT RIGHT THERE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS AN ALL OUT MIRACLE, but was fed those days on God's word alone. GIRLS true revival has broken out at the JOlly home and praise God is spillin' over into the kiddos.
My prayer is that the mountain top experience we had on January 20th will never ever be forgotten and that God will use our marriage and family to help others move closer to HIM and receive the same restoration and healing that we have gotten. I'm so thankful for the precious Christian men and women in our lives who spoke truth and held us up when we couldn't hardly stand ourselves.

2 Corinthians 2:3-7

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

Thank you Father...amen!