Teaching our boys about Jesus and sharing our experience is the number one greatest privilege of mine and Dave’s lives. We have just read through the story of David… the murderer who was also “The Man After God’s Own Heart.” We’re learning about repentance… “Making a U-turn” from sin and what it means to reconcile… “agree with” God. God never leaves us. He doesn’t leave us as we make our wrong choices a million times a day. When we turn and repent, He is standing right there with open arms. I see the light dancing in Josh and Sammy’s eyes as they start to put the pieces together about the greatest (true) story every told. About the insanity of grace. Hope in the middle of pain. That Hope, the assurance of being in the very presence of God yesterday, today and tomorrow and whatever that might bring, leads our family as we walk forward through a daily altered life. We don’t know quite what the next day (hour and minute) will look like, but what we do know is He is for us. And loves us every step of the way.
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An American humorist, writer and author. When boiling down the chicken soup of life, she finds those golden, fried nuggets of truth & writes them long after the kids go to bed.