We had a pizza party at Mom and Dad's to watch Game 7 of the Playoffs last night... a sad loss for the Thunder, but at least the Jaceman was happy!!
Watching the game, Paris (Bill & Jill's dog - Jill used to live in San Antonio), and the Spurs with their trophy!
GIF of Jace high-fiving Wemby at the beginning of Game 5 (the white hand closest to the camera on the left). It made his day!
Sour Patch Kids' marketing team is the best... the "first they're sour, then they're sweet" commercials are the cutest, and seeing this nonsense brought me instant joy (in spite of it being fake news in my personal life at times). lol
Speaking of cuteness, here's Katie and Kaden after his Kindergarten graduation - little kids in caps and gowns is so adorable to me!!
Nana with Carter and Emberlee as he was competing in the high school rodeo finals this past week!
Cousin pics from 18 years ago this week... 2008 sincerely does not seem that far back to me!!
Also in that Shutterfly stack was this gem when we were grabbing a few things from 9121 for my move to 522 in the summer of 2007... Dad, Grandad, Babah, Rach, and Emily.
And this gem - my last-ever photo with JMM from June of '07 - (I never loved it as he'd just gotten a buzz cut and didn't look like the version of himself I was accustomed to, and I was wearing vertical stripes, which are almost always a mistake without a sweater or overshirt to change up the angle). It's crazy to think that Triston is now the age Josh was here... and wearing his own Harvard shirt from the Senior trip to Boston!
Mini Miss K and her friends playing cards at Mom and Dad's... she opted not to swim that day because "Well, I just got my hair done, and it looks really good!" lol She's not wrong.
I hosted, led, and shared my testimony and the condensed version of my life story with my women's LifeGroup on Saturday. I'm thankful to say it went well, and we had a memorable discussion about Psalm 23 and Psalm 34. It had a strengthening effect on me to really think through the whole timeline of my story again, to consider new ways I can see God's hand in it, and to specifically speak the gospel part of it out loud this time as I recounted the story of Mom leading me to Christ!!
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We're doing "Psalms and Stories" this summer - reading through and discussing Psalms then getting into our personal stories and walks with God. I wrote mine out before sharing to help myself mentally organize it, and the themes I saw paired well with Christine Caine's email today: "He's not distant or disinterested. He's not too busy or too important. He misses you when you drift. He's calling you to come back, to come close, to come home. God's heart is revealed throughout Scripture. He wants relationship with you."
Hosting also inspired me to fully clean my house for the first time in a minute, so I had to snap some photos of everything looking put together!
The final portion of what I shared yesterday...
My favorite things
about Jesus:
His fiercely protective strength on behalf of His people
His delightin the details of our lives
Looking back, I see a few themes in my story: I am very relational,
and I've spent a lot of my life looking for belonging in close relationships. All while
God has continually reminded me that my deepest belonging is found in Jesus - I belong to Him and I belong with Him.
I've learned to hold on to Kingdom hope and remember that we
rarely understand the full picture while we're living through it. One of my
favorite verses says: “Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling
reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything
completely, just as God now knows me completely." ~I Corinthians 13:12
And finally, God is far more
attentive, personal, and involved than I once believed. I don’t always understand what He is up to even now,
but I will know it completely in Heaven (if not before).
And I know with confidence today that He loves me deeply, He cares about every detail of my
life, and He deserves the highest place of honor in my heart!
Okay, friends... 5 months down, 7 to go... here's my 1SE video for 2026 so far!
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