A Wonderful Time

This past weekend we had a wonderful time of Retreat. It was perhaps not as restful as any of us had hoped. Think about it...4 adults and 2 kids in 1 hotel room for 2 days. Not to mention all with different schedules and routines. Not restful, but good.

Me, Tonya, Maddie, Lucy, Mom, Jo

The theme for the retreat was, "For Such a Time as This". What a fitting theme. It was amazing to me how the Lord used 3 or 4 different people from different areas who had never met and yet their messages were so similar. I'm a little biased, but I think my little sis shared it best. When she talked about Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego and the fires that we all must face as Christians. The theme hit home with several things going on in my life right now and just reminded me that Jesus allows us to experience things in order to grow us and draw us closer to Him. And if we will go through the fires, He will go with us and with His help we can even come out of them without even a hint of the smell of smoke.

Jo and Lucy

Jesus also allowed us to have a very special prayer time on Saturday evening (almost making us late for evening service). I love these girls I call my sisters and I love my mom. I'm so thankful to have such Godly women in my life. I wish that we could be closer in life to each other, but I'm thankful for the weekend we had together.

My brothers wife, Tonya (or Aunt Tonya), was pretty excited to spend some time with her nieces and brought each of them a fun spring dress to wear on Saturday. Maddie loves her Aunt Tonya.

So of course we let the girls be twins, again. I don't think they minded!

I think it was a really good time for mom too. She had her 2nd round of chemo yesterday and so when the process of scheduling all the treatments was going on, she really wanted to make it to retreat. Thank you Jesus for making that possible. She enjoyed the time with 2 of her Grand-daughters.

Here they are sharing a funny story together.

Praise Jesus for Family Time. I am truly blessed beyond measure.