#2 Hope

Hope - What could be more hopeful than a baby at the age of one? So much promise when they are starting to walk, talk and dream... 

Where do I get my hope? I have it. I have hope. I am thankful to have hope. This week I needed to remember where I get my hope from.

"I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

Because the Lord's great love we are not consumed, 

     for his com passions never fail.

They are new every morning;

     great is your faithfulness, 

I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; 

     therefore I will wait for him."

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, 

     to the one who seeks him; 

It is good to wait quietly 

     for the salvation of the Lord."

Lamentations 3:19-26

Duck cookie - Squash; Grass picture - Sweet Pea; Learning to walk - Pumpkin; Cake eater - Pumkin
All pictures taken right around their first birthdays!

#1 Sheep

Know that the LORD, He is God;
         It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
         We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

                                Psalms 100:3

#1 Happy to just be a sheep.

Picking Apples

Nothing is better than picking apples... fresh from the tree... on a recent trip to Ohio. We still have a bag full... waiting on me to find time to make apple crisp!