Sweet spots!

Stop... Go... Stop...

Take 3 steps forward, Take 1 step backward...
Switch it up...
Stop... now Go!

Aaaahhhhhh!!

The last 4 years have felt a lot like a really long game of Simon Says!
(or Jesus says)
*ba-dump-bump (symbols crash)*

Lots of waiting and expecting and hoping and dreaming and following and praying and now we are essentially starting all over again...

3 years.
  Lots of mountains.
    Hard climbs.
      Beautiful terrain.
Tired faith.
  Renewed faith.
    Deep breaths.
      Sighs.

One would think we'd be good at transitions by now but what we keep finding is that with each new twist we are less and we need more and more and more of Christ!  Maybe that's the point.

       I continue to be humbled and along the way (praise Jesus) 

            sweet moments like these happen....

This past weekend we prepared 'thank you' notes for our sponsors by adding a thumb print because...... SIX on a journey! (YEEEEEeeeeeeeee!) 

Anndddd remember last year (this same weekend), part of our family got to go bowling with Jolly and Mammaw and our friends from McHenry First Baptist Church?!?

I even got to bowl alongside my Daddy (the 'non-pro-but-could-be-pro-bowler')!

 Remember???
  Well, guess what?!?

Last night ALL SIX of us got to bowl with Jolly and his 'gang'!
 "For real!"

"Papa John" showing Cabila how it's done!

He picked it up rather quickly!

Confidence... it's a beautiful thing...

 And so is our Kylie!

Caleb got down and dirty with his game!

Oh, and remember Kinley's personal 'Guest House bowling alley'? 

Her practice time paid off!

She wanted 'Daddy's help' at first, but then she was off and running (literally) on her own...

 (I think we created a 'monster'... or two!)

...and our youngest leader even bowled a strike!

"Mama Dawn" ain't what she used to be but she had fun playing!

And she loved getting photos of her guys---

Father/Son Frames

And these two.... I mean really!!!  

Who doesn't love these two?!?

Finishing out with Jolly!

Thanks, Mammaw and Jolly and friends in McHenry, for a great night out...

...and thanks, you guys, for loving us without condition while we await the next set of directions!

“Stand still—keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long before God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, ‘Go forward!’”

-Spurgeon