Jesus Talks to Chas!

At the dinner table tonight Chas says, "when I was at school & scared, Jesus Really Talked to me!" I asked what He said and she replied, " He said don't be afraid!" Cherish then says, "I want to go to school with Jesus too!"

Clay & I just shared a smile! Its dinner table conversations like this that we will cherish forever!!! What a peace to know Jesus is with our baby even when we can't be! Thanks Lord!

BEACH VACATION!

The first week of August we were blessed to be able to take a vacation to Gulf Shores with our friends, the Akins. We also got to hang out with our best friends from Arkansas, The Hays! It was a wonderful week of relaxation away from the busyness of our lives back home. Our girls are growing up so fast as you will see in some of our family pictures. Chastity actually started Kindergarten 3 days after we got back- which is still blowing my mind. (Pictures of that to follow!)

The beach is my most favorite place to be. I'm always amazed at God's power & creativity with the gorgeous, massive ocean crashing to the shore and knowing just where to stop. Then there is the beautiful countless granules of sand (which most people don't care for- but I love!) that God knows the number of and yet His thoughts for us outnumber them! WOW!!! Who am I, that He would love me so much.

Psalm 139: 17 "Your thoughts- how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them! I couldn't even begin to count them- any more than I could count the sand of the sea."

We can't even begin to comprehend HIS love for us, yet we forfeit and forsake it daily by placing "our lives" in priority over HIM & the abundant life He has for us! Man- we are missing out. He is the only one who can complete us, yet we search in all the wrong places for things/others who just leave us longing for more. May we seek the LOVER of OUR SOUL more and desire Him above ALL else!

HE is what the beach reminds me of!

(MORE PICS TO COME!)