First of all I apologise for how long it has been since my last post, the summer disappeared before I realised it was over. A lot has happened over the last little while that I will do my best to try and share it with you.
As I mentioned in the previous post we moved into another staff house with a little more room for the kids to run around in, now that Mckaleigh has started walking I am really thankful for the extra room we now enjoy. Feeling really blessed and more at home here.
There has been some big things happen this summer that has me thinking a lot about life and just how short our time here on earth is compared to eternity in heaven. As a staff unit we has experienced lots of loss. Friends of ours had their five month old son go and be with Jesus one night. One week after that a staff member from a few years back was in a motorcycling accident and went to be with Jesus. While processing that a few weeks later a good friend of ours had his sister pass away from cancer and went to live in eternity with our God. Each one of these lives left big imprints on those who are left behind, I know they are all in a far better place than we are living here on this earth but it doesn't make the missing them stop. My life has been impacted by the family and close friends of these loved ones. Watching the mother and father of that sweet baby boy live their lives full out for God, wresting with it at times but just reflecting God and love to every one they come across in the middle of their grief and dealing with life with out their son. Our friend's sister who passed away from cancer I didn't know super well, more just through our friend, I think her absence impressed in my life the most. She was a mother of three kids and not that much older than me it hit really close to home. Being at her funeral I couldn't help but think what legacy I would be leaving behind when my time comes to join them in eternity with or Father. Will my kids remember me as loving, caring, and Godly? There are days I feel I have not been as loving and caring as I should have been caught up in the task at hand. I am still learning to let go of what I am doing and just pour more love over my kids. when my time has come to leave this world I want my life to have touched peoples hearts and reflect God to them. I am still processing and working it out into my day to day life.
A big prayer request I have is for one of or friends daughter who has been diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma. She has a big tumor that is touching her trachea and heart. Sweet little Sarah is only one day younger that our son Liam who turned three the end of July. Sarah has not been responding well to her chemo treatments and is now also having radiation treatments. She has been in the Children's Stroller since the middle of August and will likely be there for some time yet. Please pray with us for the Baker family that they will draw closer to God through this and for a miracle of healing for little Sarah
