Praying you know...

We are beach bound!!!

you're a blessing to me.  I want to share a prayer that was on a card a dear friend sent me, that is my prayer for you all.

"Dear Lord,
There are so many wonderful people I love, and I ask Your forgiveness-and theirs-
For not letting them know all the times that I could how they're kept in my thoughts, and my prayers.
How the things that can seem so important each day really mean nothing at all.
Compared to the warmth and the blessings we share in a visit, letter, or call.
So, please help me remember there'll always be time to accomplish the things I must do,
But the memories we make with the ones whom we love are the treasures that last all life through."

(Emily Matthews)

I am so thankful for my friends.  This week is wrapping up and we are leaving tomorrow to go to the beach!!!  Tybee Island, yaaayyy.  I will be updating our blog, but I wanted to end our week by saying a few words of courage.

Ashley, you know who you are, God is with you always.  It doesn't matter how much of a struggle we are going through, but there is always someone praying for you.  There is always someone with you. But most of all...GOD LOVES YOU!!!  I am so grateful I saw you yesterday, and I am praying for your courage.

Jennifer, I love that you gave me a cross to remember many memories of times long ago.  Psalms 3:5 is one of my favorites!!!  "Trust the Lord with all your heart" and I will take this one step further...with all your soul, mind, strength, mood, courage, life PERIOD!  I love you and am thankful you are part of my life.

Most of all, I don't know if all three of my sisters ever read this (I know one does), but THANK YOU and I love you more than you would ever know.

You all are some of the people I care most about and I want you all to know it.  I am praying that you will know in your heart that I am not sure where to begin, but I am thankful for you in my life and the blessings you have been.

My Reed, Brooke, Ben, Mary, and most wonderfully sweet Tobes, THANK YOU for the most wonderful twelve days we could have with our new life.  We have laughed, smiled, and cried and you all are our strength and courage. "You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you as you are to them" (Desmond Tutu).

Finally, please mark your calendars for September 10---It is the Juvenile Diabetes Walk, and yep we are getting a team together.  I will be posting a link on my "Facebook" page...we would love for you to be on our team!!!!  There will be a cure in our lifetime for Type 1 Diabetes, I have the faith to know IT WILL HAPPEN!!!

Have a wonderful weekend....