backdrops

Hands hold her high as the son falls over the leaves,
they bathe her in His light, in His colors...
and the golds and crimson surround her tiny shape...
making it appear as she is a part of the back drop that the artist created just for her this beautiful fall day.

Until we meet again

I have always said I don't like the sound of "good-bye".  I have tried through the years to think of different things to say or do so I can just kind of avoid the word...
"se la vie"

Then I see this picture...
I can feel the wave in the air, the excitement in her little body , the love of a mother,
and I realize that we never really do say good bye
we feel it in our heart and hold it there until we meet again.

God's thoughts

He tells the story of " how when he was a tiny baby he started out in his gram-ma's tummy.  God knew that Grammy couldn't handle him so He saved Conner Dallas for Emily.  Conner was then actually born years later to his mother and then that left gram-ma more able to take care of him.  All the while that gram-ma was raising Emily (Conner D's mother) he just waited with God until it was time."
It makes me smile, he is so sure of himself...
and sometimes I wonder if children know more than we do?
Does he know...  the excitement I feel inside when I see him?
Does he know...                                                                                                                                    that when his momma's heart soars with happiness in his each little achievement that mine soars even higher?
That when she cry's I cry?
That in away, God knew of Conner Dallas Harren before there was time, before the first baby's smile, He knew we would have a brother bear blesser in our family -
He knew that although I wouldn't be the one to give birth to Conner, that I would be the one who gave birth to his mother...
my, what a circle of love...
starting way back when...
in God's thoughts.

SCHOOL GIRLS

August 2013

  Chris has been heading out to North Dakota to help out the Coborns store by the oil fields.  He leaves and Lacey and Nola Jean head to Foley.
This is one of the first trips right before school started.
Nola and Jordyn went to Mrs. Harren's class and learned some of the greatest lessons in life.
You pack up your goods into a school bag, button your sweater,
take your friends hand,
and head out in to the world with a smile on your face.

3 X 3 = 9

Becker community center Sept 2013

camp dells 2013

Paul Bunyon 2013, Conner - Chris - Jordyn

Mantolello community center October 2013

women united 2013

camp dells 2013

Clear Water 2013

soccer camp 2013

soccer camp 2013

MotelWinter 2005

Becker community center September 2013

3x3=9

The number three keeps coming up in my life.  I know we have talked about it many times before - and here it is again!
Lord,
I pray that each will know what you made them to be.  That they would not try to be who they are not or desire to be someone else.  Pour out your Holy Spirit upon each on here this day, annoint them for all that You've called them to be and everything you want them to do.  Deliver them from any evel and keep them on the path in which You created them for.  May the fruits of the Spirit (LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, AND SELF-CONTROL)  grow in them daily.  I pray that they will understand that it is You "who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began" (2Timothy 1:9).
Oh how I love these groups of three!
Amen!

Harvest fest 2013

They are coming in...
pictures,
calls,
they are carving their pumpkins.
Getting ready for the Harvest fest.
Putting on costumes of something they long to be,
knowing that God made them special just as they are.
They gently clean out all the seeds and slush from the inside,
  Jesus does the same for us -
and after He does,
He puts His light in us so others can see the way.

A pocket full of love

This is the smile that has made her famous.
Straight across,
looking as though she has something saved in her cheeks.
And on this day,
I picture a pocket full of love sent out to Blaine and caught by our Cassie Grace.