#4 Friends

"Bear one another's BURDENS." Galations 6:2

This past week, the burdens were heavy. Too heavy to carry alone... thank you dear friends for coming along side and listening to me weep... for sharing a prayer on the phone, for sympathy, for compassion, for knowing and understanding. The burden was too great, but it was spread out... and the load was lightened. Not gone, nor forgotten, but lighter none the less.

#3 Rest

Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, 

and I will give you rest. 

Matthew 11:38

#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!