This morning's sunrise while 

on my "walkie - talkie"

with God.

(If we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.) And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.

Romans 8:25–27

From

Counting My Blessing

blog post

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"But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently,"

Romans 8:25

Papa Jack, a Legacy

I'm taking an idea that Brenda shared on her blog;
It's A Beautiful Life blog
by honoring my dad.

My dad (Papa Jack),
passed away on June 24, 2006.
We still miss him very much!

Below is a picture from a blog post 
that I did a few years back.

My dad was a war veteran and he served in the
United States Air Force.

         This is all I have left of my dad.

                    His Air Force hat

                    Shoe horn

                    Reading glasses

                    His handkerchief

                    Some of his ashes in a cement heart.

Collage left to right:

His middle brother, mother, father, oldest brother

           My dad is the little blonde guy.

My dad in his flight suit. 

             He received The Purple Cross

My dad loved to sit in the sun.

This is the last picture of my dad 

             before he died, weeks later.

My dad  LOVED his family.

Below, Kimmy and Todd gave Papa Jack 

a haircut before he had surgery on his head.

He didn't know they gave him a Mohawk!

Which brings me to this handsome guy!

Levi, our 9 year old grandson,

 has been asking a lot questions 

about Papa Jack.

It was an honor to give him

 my dad's military dress hat.

 Levi wants to build a 

Legacy Shelf 

to display this hat

 and other memorabilia on.

This has made me so pleased!

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"The wise will inherit honor, but fools display dishonor."

Proverbs 3: 35

Huxley Blaise 

Born August 24, 2019,

at exactly 8:00 a.m.

11 pounds!!!

 Huxley is our 9th grandchild!

I have been blessed to be the Doula for all of them!

Tom and I spent two weeks in Seattle, serving, attending, helping, working, and loving on Todd, Stephanie, Trey, Scarlett and now Huxley.

But we had time to visit downtown Seattle...

Hold the baby...

 

Play on the beach...

Hold the baby...

 Visit my brother at his home...

Hold the baby...

Take a ferryboat ride...

Hold the baby...

Yes, we did a lot of holding Huxley!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Tom and I use to live in the Seattle area. 

 When ever we come back to visit, 

we go to Puget Sound.

Either on a ferryboat ride,

or to the beach. 

Especially, when it was a really low tide, 

like it was one day.

My brother, Steve and his wife live only blocks 

away from Todd and Steph.

So they spent the day with us, at low tide.

The weather was beautiful.

One day we stayed home and 

played in the new water table,

We also went to the Seattle Zoo,

and rode the Merry-Go-Round.

 BUT... we had to go back home.

It's always hard to say good-by.

especially, when we had so much fun.

Now, we are getting ready for Salt Lake City 

and Nathan's surgery, on August 15th.

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"Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written.

'For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;

We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.'

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us,"

Romans 8: 36-37