Happy Mother's Day to our wonderful mother's: Teresa & Chris! We love you very much and hope you have a wonderful day.
Here is a picture from today of the girls and I. Audrey just doesn't like to cooperate with pictures these days! Thank you Nana for the matching dresses!
Even Emily's friend Senica wanted to be a part of our family with a matching dress :)
The following is something Dr. Bob Laurent, our guest speaker shared in his sermon today. I don't know where it came from, but thought it was very challenging:
"If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper -- not a homemaker. If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness -- not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window. Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk. Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is present through the trials. Love reprimands, reproves and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood. Love is the key that opens salvation's message to a child's heart. Before I became a parent, I took glory in my house of perfection. Now I glory in the Holy Spirit's perfection of my child. As a parent, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is LOVE."
