As many of you know, our two oldest children were blessed with the opportunity to go to the Diamond J Rodeo Camp. This is their second year, but it feels like it has been a life time. I was really hoping and praying that I would be able to go and was thinking that I was going to have to miss is this year. It brings so much joy to not only to our children but to me. I leave there filling filled with the Holy Spirt. The relationships you gain while there are lifelong ones. I truly consider them family. That all being said I was able to go and the girls grew in both their rodeo skills as in the relationship with Christ. God truly has a way of speaking through people and there were many times that I felt that He was speaking directly to me. On the last night, Pastor Al had asked us to close our eyes in preparation to pray, then said, " Now look at yourself" I did, and to my surprise I saw a beautiful version of myself. I thought to myself this must be how God sees me. I...
I’ve been thinking about how when God brings you to it, He’ll bring you through it and how when He says that He’s holding you in the palm of His hand. I think about how much my community both physical community that I live in and the community of friends, neighbors, and family who have surrounded us and are holding us. Truly holding us up during this difficult season of our life. I just can’t express how much we feel blessed, loved, and supported during this time. I am such a firm believer in the fact that God puts people in our lives for a reason. He has kept us here in Creston for a reason, there have been so many different opportunities and reasons why we thought that we should move and we have stayed and I am so thankful that we have. In my mind when people would say allow God to hold you, I would picture my little self in big giant hands. Now when I look at those hands I see all the different people who have been supporting us making up those hands. Thank you, truly, to all of y...