Dear Children

Dear Precious Children,

This has been a year of changes for our little family.  Moving to a new city, daddy getting a new job, getting a puppy (Lord help me!).  It has been hard and good and sad and exciting.  And God has been with us through it all.  Today, I have been thinking and pondering a lot.  It started with celebrating that Eli went to his first birthday party this weekend and it was a success!  Eli, your progress over the last year has been mind-blowing in the very best of ways.  I want you three to know something that I hope I am able to teach  you, if I teach you nothing else:  Our God is faithful... so, so faithful.  And He is Good.  There will be seasons that hurt.  Seasons in which you will have to say goodbye.  Seasons in which you feel alone or hurt.  In your pain, He is close.  In your transition, He is constant and no matter what He is faithful.  I hope you see the evidence of that in our family.

God so often tells the Israelites in the Old Testament to remember.  Remember what he has done for you because that is how you can know his character even when you can't see him working things out. So, since this little blog started as a way to record what happens in our family, I plan to pick back up with recording what happens and how I can see God working in our family.  I hope and pray that in years to come when you read through this that you will be able to see how God is writing our story for His glory.