I am so proud of my children.....pursuing or maybe simply discovering their God given dreams and I simply and humbly pray they remember they are God given and when they pursue Him first ....well everything fits......I wonder how You know our hearts so well....I wonder at how quickly those dreams become our idols....I wonder at how completely You forgive us when we turn back....I wonder at how long it takes to remember and turn back and yet in the turning back always You're there, always there forgiving..embracing us......I wonder at how You love us.......I wonder at how quickly we forget that love...I wonder how I continue to demand more....please Abba help us to remember a seeking heart, a humble seeking heart...a broken and contrite heart....no matter how much it hurts to get there, that we remember in the being THERE You heal......

Gideon this morning finishing up fearless when it all began w/him so fearful....so sure of his mission and yet the error in memorializing it w/the ephod...we as a people forget what we are memorializing and worship the wrong thing...all Glory goes to You...his story gives me such HOPE....

And then 1 Cor. 15: By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you....the word...YOUR word....Jesus saving us not because of anything we did or could do but because of who You are....

fighting FOR....1 Cor. 15: Therefore my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.....

remembering years lived without this deep sense of knowing...of being loved and led into loving in ways I don't understand.....remembering I can do nothing without You...praying my children realize the same thing.....Thank You Abba for everything....