GRADUATION

It happened. It really happened. I'm not shocked he made it, cuz he got his daddy's smarts and school was always a breeze for him. But my amazement came in how fast the time went right by me. It seems like last Saturday I was chewing my fingers, screaming at umpires, and eating tums for the ulcer at his Little League baseball games. How could he be 8 last Saturday and 18 today?

For the record, I am so very proud of my son. I am proud of the mountaintops and successful achievements...yes. But I am also very proud of the valleys and the failures he had the strength to get up, walk away from, and begin again. Wow! What a great accomplishment!

He makes me laugh. I love his jokes. I love when my phone lights up with his picture to let me know he's calling. I don't care why, I just love the sound of his voice.

This is my son...in whom I am well pleased. :-)

GOD IS STILL GOOD

On a quiet night when I can think more clearly, I plan to type so many of the stories and testimonies that have transpired over the last year. But I was looking at the blog today and it just seemed like cobwebs were forming. So I tried to think of a way that I could sum up all of the heartache, pain, loss, transition, physical illness, obstacles, roadblocks, attacks of enemy, stress, change, and all the other stuff life throws at us...and so I wrote: GOD IS STILL GOOD.

That says it all. Things change. People leave. Stuff breaks. Life hurts. BUT GOD...He stays, and He stays the same.

After all I have survived this past year, I can still testify: GOD IS STILL GOOD.