touring near the big apple

Our son Eric is still touring with his band. I miss him.

They are pictured here in the Big Apple, how fun! Awww to be young again!

Tonight they are in West Virginia making their way toward Florida in the coming days. I noticed an email today from another band from Portland that they had played with recently.

This guy talked about how much the band has ministered to him and affected his walk with the Lord - how exciting to see a genre of music that we don't always understand still able to help kids with their spiritual walk! You go boys!

boys are back in town

Our son's band is back together again with Bryant's return from Colorado, and they are ready to take off across the country on tour, fun times!

Tonight as I am attempting to think, sitting at my computer - video games are blazing, food is disappearing, and preparations are being made for all the traveling about to take place. We all cannot wait to see what opportunities God brings their way.

Please pray for them, they will be gone almost the entire rest of the summer.

You teach your kids about the Lord, try to model a consistent Christ honoring life to the best of your ability, then you have to let them go...tough to do...please pray

blown away

The services are over for another weekend, all went really well! The hustle and bustle of greeting attendees, instructing volunteers, connecting with perspective members, hurrying across a busy lobby to touch a struggling sister in Christ and all the clean up afterward has ended for now. I am blown away by the obvious ways God was present at Crossroads this weekend. Now it is time for rest.When I need rest I go to my deck, no one talking, no music, no noise, just me and God and His fabulous nature!

I am sitting with my back against the side of my house to avoid flying debris and to avoid being blown away!! We are beginning to see the affects of the hurricanes, one of our trees just fell across the road. My husband is now moving all our cars down to our open field to avoid branches. Our dog just ran and hid in the barn! But I am memorized! I can't go in! The clouds are moving the opposite direction of normal, crazy but awesome! So maybe it is not exactly a calm serene scene, but somehow natures' chaos is still comforting. Maybe it is knowing I bare no responsibility for it.

Up to a minute ago it was just me the wind and my thoughts, but they have been disrupted by a familiar sound left over from summer. My son's band is practicing with garage door open. He is home from college and trying to squeeze in a quick practice before returning. I am blown away by my son...(Eric is on the left)

You'll have to excuse me while I soak up his sound before it leaves me once again.