Back From Vacation!

Joshua, Luke, and Kennedi - best buds -
at the Friday night performance!

Dear Joshua and Luke,

We are back from vacation and right into Vacation Bible School.  This is our second year going, and it was unbelievably better than last year - which was hard to beat!  This year I volunteered to be a teacher leader.  I was assigned to a multi-age group of four and five year olds, and children that just finished kindergarten.  It was a busy group, but the best part was being the teacher for both of you.  I am so pleased about how proud you both were to have me as your teacher. I am sure that neither of you realized how proud I was of saying that you were both my sons!  The week ended with the celebration in the park.  It gave me goosebumps to see you both along with 270 other young children in our city, singing and praising God.  It was quite an experience! 

Even better was hearing both of you talk about God sightings all week or things that reminded you of God outside of Vacation Bible School.   We spent a great deal of time talking about the daily lessons and the scriptures.  Here are a couple of examples that make me so proud.

A portion of the 272 children  from Vacation Bible School!

I asked Joshua to help his brother strap in his booster seat.  Joshua said, "Well, I don't really want to, but if Jesus was here, then he would do it so I will do it, mom."  WOW!  I have been teaching both of you to think about what Jesus would do in certain situations and here you did it without any prompting from us!  I was so proud.

Just Joshua!

Luke was drawing at the desk in his room two nights after Vacation Bible School ended.  He was very serious about this drawing, and looked quite intent on completing it.  So we asked him what he was drawing and he said, "My Father's house.  It's a big house with lots of windows."  We had been singing a song called, "My Father's House" all week at bible school.  How cool that he was dreaming of how wonderful God's house was going to be. 

Then,  there were at least four times this week, that Luke has reminded us that, "Nothing is Impossible With God," - another song that we learned this week.  One time Daddy was fixing the toilet leak, and Dad said, "This is impossible!!!! (Luckily, that is all the kids heard!)  Luke walked over to the bathroom, and said, "Nothing is impossible with God."  How could you not smile at that? There was a time this week where I said, "That is just not possible." and Luke reminded me again that nothing is impossible with God.  Just tonight he was singing in the bathroom...Nothing is impossible with God!

Luke!

We sang happy birthday to Grandma Nichols this week.  She was 81 years old on Sunday.  Unfortunately, she needs lots of extra prayers this week.  She had a heart attack on Monday, and is now in the hospital.  The doctors have diagnosed her with congestive heart failure.  Her dementia is so much worse now, too.  Please keep her in your prayers.

I love you both more today than yesterday.

Love,
Mama