Obtaining Mercy

Welcome to the Ultimate Blog Party

 

 

Welcome to Obtaining Mercy!

I am Alesha Kay and I am so excited that you have dropped by my blog for the Ultimate Blog Party!

 

 

 

I started blogging in 2007, which was a particulary difficult year for our family.  I was just looking for a place to unwind, to share my thoughts and feelings, and to connect with other likeminded women.

I have been greatly blessed by the people I have met since then.  I love my bloggy friends!

I blog quite a bit about the men in my life: My husband Doug and my son, Isaac.  In fact, Isaac has his own page here, because he is such a special kiddo - in more ways than one.

 

 

I also write about running a household, living with chronic conditions (fibromyalgia & osteoarthritis) and about our ongoing goal of fitness and health.

The writing that I am most passionate about is my A Door of Hope posts.

I reached a point in my life, when Isaac was so sick in 2007, that I felt absolutely hopeless.  I had never experienced that kind of emptiness and pain before, and I was shocked and saddened by my inability to rise above those feelings.

So, I ran to God's Word, and I sunk myself into It to see what I could find about hope; and of course, the Bible's pages are brimming with verses and stories about the Hope that we can only find in God alone.

The Lord is so gracious and kind to give us all that we need to meet life's trials, when we read His Word.  He wants our lives to be joyful and filled with hope.

As we come to know the character of God, we come to realize that as long as God lives, there is hope!  It is ours for the asking, and it is bountiful and everlasting in its supply.

If you are hurting today, I pray that you find some words of comfort and assurance here at Obtaining Mercy and A Door of Hope.

Thanks for coming to the Ultimate Blog Party!!! 

Be sure to head to Party Central and visit with the other bloggers there.

 

Hopefully blogging,

Alesha Kay

 

 

Bloggy Business

 

Just a little informal note to let you know that I have merged my devotional blog - A Door of Hope - with my personal blog here.

So if you were subscribed via email, or Yahoo, or Google Reader, etc., you will not be receiving any more posts from that blog.  You can delete it, if you so desire.

I began, last month, to use the category of "A Door of Hope" here on any posts that were devotional in nature.  So, if you want to read only devotional posts, you can use the tab above, or you can click on "A Door of Hope" in the categories to the right.

This is just a small attempt to simplify my virtual life. :)  I find I have too many accounts, too many blogs, too many places to check in.  So, a streamlining is in order, and this was a beginning of that for me.

Thanks...now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

;)

Alesha