It’s easy to focus on the first part - their confidence that God will provide, where the real growth came when I read the next six words.

And outside of the biggest events of our lives, it is our church that has provided consistent, Biblical teaching on a weekly basis.

“I don’t know where the kids are?” Rachel said with a smile on her face. I play along knowing full well that the kids are hiding from me.

There is so much to be thankful and often some of the greatest things I am thankful for is the unexpected kindness of strangers.

Standing around the table sorting our childhood Legos reminded me of thankful I am for the relationships that have grown around that table.

We’ve been through mountains and valleys over the past fifteen years but there is no other person I’d want to go through this life with.

Sometimes improvement happens through giant leaps but other times it’s one simple step in the right direction.

Instead of keeping my work to myself, what I really needed was to ship the work. That’s why I’m thankful for this process as a whole.

When I looked in my rearview mirror a few moments later, I saw the face of a 4-year-old engaged in worship.

Linnea and Elias, through some convincing and encouraging, moved from the sidelines to the game tonight...and discovered fun.