This past week my youngest son Isaiah (7) and I were working on a project for school. Each student in his class gets to have one week out of the school year that is all about them. So this week Isaiah is the “Marvelous Me” student of the week!

One of his assignments for “marvelous me” week is to create a poster of pictures of himself, family, friends and things he enjoys. Usually I use the computer to print off pictures for these types of projects but this time I realized we were out of colored ink. Stink… So Isaiah and I decided to look through his developed pictures to use instead.

This started a chain reaction in our household! One by one someone from our family would walk into our spread of pictures and get sucked in to looking at them. We laughed a lot and in some moments Justin and I got teary eyed. It was bitter sweet to remember how small the boys used to be and how quickly they are growing. Bitter sweet to think through 16 years of ministry together and the hilarious pictures we can’t wait to put on Facebook of those we’ve served with!
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As Justin and I sorted through the pictures and took in all that our extended family and friends have been through, Justin became very quite. Then he made the sweetest statement: “No matter where we have lived; no matter if I was making $16,000 or $160,000; no matter who we were doing life and ministry with, GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN FAITHFUL” and his statement is so true.

So today as we are snowed in with our boys and creating more memories that one day we will look back on I want to take the time to say thank you! Thank you Jesus for your faithfulness! Thank you to our extended families that have stuck by our side in the good and bad. Thank you to MANY friends who have loved us when we had little and loved us when we had a lot (and then little again)! Thank you to our boys who I think may have taught us more than we have taught them! Our family is blessed beyond comprehension and each day is a gift of life, love and friendships!

Who are you thankful for today?