Two posts in less than a week!

I am tracking down pictures from the service. I KNOW they were taken, I just have to figure out whose camera was flashing! LOL!

This morning I got a phone call that every parent of every child that is really moving in some weird directions wants to get......My oldest son called me this morning. The conversation started with "Guess what really great thing I did last night?" Okay, the boy is 19 years old. His father and I eloped at 19, his girlfriend's parents eloped at 19....and, aside from that...he acts like a 19 year old boy......My mind sped from one idea to the next and finally settled on...."you got engaged or you eloped?" His response included a chuckle at my answer. "No, Mom. Better than that!" Okay....what could be better than that....was it better than that like he stuck his truck so far in the mud it took 3 trucks to pull it out? was it better like he joined the circus? was it better like, he......hmmmmm..... "I give, what did you do?" His response brought tears to my eyes. This is a young man who has spent the last 8 months trying to spread his wings and fly in almost every direction we have taught him not to go. He was drinking (not driving but still drinking), he was smoking (not anything illegal but still smoking), he was running around with people who did not see any since in going to church. The scariest comment he made to me was when he told me, it was his time to live and he would try to find time for God later. Yikes! But back to his reponse..... "Mom, I reintroduced myself to Jesus last night".......Wow! Thank you Lord for staying with him and putting the right people in his life, and giving me the strength and courage to just hang on and have faith. Amen.