Michigan

We are having a great time with our friends in St. Joe, Michigan.  I love the Colp's, being here makes me remember how much fun we have always had together.  I love even more that Ella is so in love with her Mimi and Uncle David.  She has them wrapped around her little finger.  God has so been good to both of our families though even just two years ago we never would have said we would be where we are.  Transitions are hard but what comes out in the end is always better than what was there before. Refined - Gotta love that - when you can look back and see why God choose to do what He did.

"Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

LOVE THEM - BEAT BRAZIL!!!

Words and Thoughts

"May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." Psalm 19:14

Help me today O'Father to show you in every way.  Above all may my girls look at me and realize that their mom serves a God that is life-changing.  

oh yea!

Pumped!  Dave bought me a double jogging stroller and it just got here.  I can't wait to put it together.

Man, I love this girl.  Even though I sometimes feel like she never listens, she always thinks she knows best, and she wakes me up EVERY night in the middle of the night by crawling in my bed.  Today was just one of those perfect days where you get to stay home all day, everyone in their jammies, without anything to worry about.  

Psalm 37:4, "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

GAP

Went to the Gap Outlet today.  Bri needed pants before she left for college.  Man, I can't believe she is going to be a Freshman in college this fall.   It seems like just yesterday she came walking into our youth center as an unsure 6th grader.  Now she is headed to Cedarville to major in Youth Ministry and minor in Women's Ministry.  Pouring into her life has been a privilege.  You think that as a Youth Pastor you are helping change these kids and then when you stop and look back over the years you realize how much they have changed you.  Bri's going to make it - even though no one would have blamed her for throwing in the towel - she overcame and set the example for the believers following behind her.  I wish I would have known the truth she knows when I was her age.   

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 

Be strong in me now o'God.  I am nothing without you.