Our recent vacation started with a trip to Jackson to stay with my sister. On the way we were able to catch up with old friends. Keith,
Rebecca, Sara, and Levi live in Vicksburg and we stopped to have dinner with them. They are solid
christians and we are blessed to call them friends.
Rebecca graduated high school with Courtney and we met Keith in Sunday school at
Vidalia First
Baptist. Initially it was a small class with 7 or 8 being a great attendance day. We left it that way in 2006 when we went back to school in Alexandria. We were gone for one year before we returned to
Vidalia to complete
clinicals for ultrasound school. We had a wonderful experience at Calvary Baptist in Alexandria and were heartbroken to leave there. Our intentions when we returned to
Vidalia were not to attend
FBV. We were going to try another church. God had other plans. A chance (God ordained) encounter between Courtney and Keith at the grocery store changed that. He invited us to a New Years party at their house the next day (Sunday). We felt like if we were going to the party we should at least attend church with them that morning. Wow! The next morning we attended Sunday school and it was nothing like the class we left. The Holy Spirit was moving. A big part of that was Keith and
Rebecca. That year was awesome. With Clare and Tammy leading the class, there was lots of discussion and great attendance. Keith and I participated in some additional bible study and had lots of great discussion. Proverbs 27:17 says as iron sharpens iron a friend sharpens a friend. That's how I feel about Keith. Though our families are not able to get together that much we consider them special friends and keep them in our prayers. That night in Vicksburg was a
blurr. I wish we could have stayed longer, even though Landry was a little wild and fell out of his chair at least twice. God willing, we will be provided some opportunities in the future to fellowship with them. Maybe we will be worshiping together someday. That would be great.
went to sleep. It made me feel good. I wish I could say he does it all the time, but he doesn't. He likes his space. This night he wasn't feeling great and I benefited. I love my boys very much. As much as I want to appreciate ALL of the time I have with them, sometimes I get busy or distracted. Parents, especially dads, lets make a concerted effort to love them and value the times we have with them. I still remember the tears in my eyes when I held Landry for the first time. Now he is in kindergarten and quickly surpassing his dad in wit and wisdom. Love em all the time.
Thankfully, without any coaxing from their father, they both decided LSU was their favorite team.
Baptist. Initially it was a small class with 7 or 8 being a great attendance day. We left it that way in 2006 when we went back to school in Alexandria. We were gone for one year before we returned to Vidalia to complete clinicals for ultrasound school. We had a wonderful experience at Calvary Baptist in Alexandria and were heartbroken to leave there. Our intentions when we returned to Vidalia were not to attend FBV. We were going to try another church. God had other plans. A chance (God ordained) encounter between Courtney and Keith at the grocery store changed that. He invited us to a New Years party at their house the next day (Sunday). We felt like if we were going to the party we should at least attend church with them that morning. Wow! The next morning we attended Sunday school and it was nothing like the class we left. The Holy Spirit was moving. A big part of that was Keith and Rebecca. That year was awesome. With Clare and Tammy leading the class, there was lots of discussion and great attendance. Keith and I participated in some additional bible study and had lots of great discussion. Proverbs 27:17 says as iron sharpens iron a friend sharpens a friend. That's how I feel about Keith. Though our families are not able to get together that much we consider them special friends and keep them in our prayers. That night in Vicksburg was a blurr. I wish we could have stayed longer, even though Landry was a little wild and fell out of his chair at least twice. God willing, we will be provided some opportunities in the future to fellowship with them. Maybe we will be worshiping together someday. That would be great.
Courtney started working part time a couple of weeks ago, necessitating us finding a daycare for the kids. Since Landry has started "big" school he is only there in the afternoons. They go to Fellowship Methodist and the people have been wonderful. The afterschool kids arrive in the church's van and place there backpacks in the corner of the sanctuary. High above the pulpit is a stained glass window with several images. Jesus is at the center and surrounded by several others. One of them is the dove that descended upon Jesus at His baptism. After retrieving Landry from the playground, we returned to get his backpack. He pointed at the dove. He said, "That's the Jesus bird. He died for all the birds." No idea where that came from. As an addition, his lesson in Sunday School today was about Jesus' baptism. He said he was scared to be "babatized". I love how he says certain words. Often Courtney and I will manipulate conversations just to hear them. Oh, and today in his story the bird was downgraded from "the Jesus bird", but not to a dove. Today he was an eagle. 
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