Emily and Jonathan

It has been too long since I have blogged. Mainly because life this past week has been so incredibly full that I had no time. So this early Sunday morning I sit quietly in the living room, just having finished my scripture reading. Tim is driving to Ohio to preach and spend some time there and Angela is still sleeping. I contemplate the coming days as they will continue to be full.

Emily and Jonathan are engaged and will be married this January. Daughter three - and we are suppose to be moving to Ohio next week. Life is - well - bittersweet. It is so sad to me to see Emily move to California after she is married. I am so happy for her yet there is a little selfishness that I don't want to see her go. Wedding plans and moving plans all mixed in together create quite the emotional time for me. As much as I can't wait to get to Ohio there is now the feeling of wanting to get as much time with Emily as I can before she heads off to the other side of the country. I pray the Lord brings about that peace which will suppase all my understanding. That in the midst of an ever changing life that God will wrap himself all around it - guiding every step - setting things in place ahead of time - and just filling each of us with his joy and peace. (sorry the picture is so dark, I took it with my phone the night they got engaged.)

3 John 1:3 "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth."

I am so thankful for this in my life. I am so thankful that three of my girls have men in their lives who desire to grow in their christian walk. I am so thankful that all of them are walking in the truth. There should be nothing more joyful to a parent than this. So as they take their next steps on their journey I will commend them to the care of the Lord. No better place to be than that. I can still picture Emily in 1st grade singing in church with her class "Life is a journey we're takin each day, life is a journey and we're on our way and God in his mercy from heaven above blessed our journey in love." How precious those days are to me and I will treasure them always.