In Christ Alone our Hope is Found

I finally took some time to download some pictures. This is what has been going on the last few weeks. This is my new favourite picture. Ken and I went to Saugatuk together for our anniversary and waited for the sun to go down. It was stunning. I just snapped a picture without even thinking that Ken was in it. But it turned out kind of nice! (: My girls are growing up.  Natalie's 4rth of July center piece! We got the flags from the parade.  These next ones were taken at our first set of fireworks on the July 4rth week! (:  Sorry kids, this is the best one I could get! (:   Grace was getting tired of waiting! Micah got to play on the All Star team this year.  Home from his last game. I thought the black paint was cute! (: They didn't come close to winning, but it was still a good experience for him! (:      The girlies! Ken took the ki...

May 31st was our 17 year anniversary. That means that this August will mark our 21st year together.  Ken and I promised that we would marry each other when I was 16 and he was 20. It was one week before he went away to Redeemer. He was in school the whole time we dated, but came home every weekend. We were so young and thought we were so old and knew pretty much everything. Not so much! (: Ken and I traveled from Grand Rapids to St Thomas and then through to New Jersey in May. We had a lot of quiet hours to chat. It was nice! (: As we drove, we smiled about the places we drove through. We passed through the place that Ken went to University, where we stayed the first night of our honeymoon, were we lived at his first teaching job, then second, then third and fourth! (:  We lived in more than a handful of houses in our first years of marriage. We know every Value Village from Sarnia to Niagara Falls. Just so you know! (: The more I thought about our lives, the more I want...

Some people call it sorrow overload. I am not sure why at times the weight of other's pain and sorrow overwhelms, when other times we can pray on, without crumbling under the weight. ... a year and a half after a car accident a young husband and father is taken to be with the Lord. ... a 15 year old boy dies in a car accident. His mom still in a coma, will wake to her boy with the Lord and already buried. Think of her husband who buried his boy and holds his wife's hand waiting for her to wake, while holding his other children in their grief. ... a man suffers with ALS, as his "tent pegs are being pulled up one by one" ... a family tries to find their feet again after the Lord takes their little boy to Himself, leaving behind his twin, a little sister and another little sister on the way. On this side of heaven they will never be a complete family. ... a wife mourns the loss of another husband I could go on. In all these situations, these people are a testim...