A week of variety...

I have been home from Macon for about a week and a week of variety it has been...The emergency of Megan going to the hospital so sick and then having their baby 6 weeks early...The Sutton's 1st Sunday...Helping Ricky/Megan with getting the house ready for a preemie... Wednesday night WMB service with Sis Annette in charge...Resting Thurs/Fri from all the hectic activity of the prior week...Tonight our immediate family Jimmy, Peggy, Vicky, Rhonda, Kim and Steve celebrated my parents 50th anniversary...It was sweet...Even though our lives have taken many different directions, there is a genuine love, admiration and respect for one another...We don't agree on lots of subjects, but our love runs deep and we have been there for one another as much as we possibly could under multiple circumstances in this life...For that I am glad...We have never allowed misunderstandings and divisions in our beliefs to keep us from keeping our relationships with one another...Although some of us are better at it than others, we love and accept each other flaws and all...It doesn't matter the hurts and failures among us, we all want our family together when it is all said and done...I don't care what your age, you long for home...Home is where Mom and Dad are together...We got to share our verbal attempts at saying we love each other...My Dad said he takes full responsibility for failing us as the leader of our family...It's so sad the years of regret we all live with wishing we should have, could have tried harder to keep us together like God intended...Forgiveness is a powerful act of our will...Feelings follow actions, not vice versa...I hope when my life is over that I lived my life as best as God gave me power and grace to live...Without him I could do nothing...Without him I would surely fail...Without him my life from this day forward would be hopeless...But thanks be to God who causes us to triumph over every situation that life throws our way...Against all hope, I hold on to the almighty God...Against the wind, I keep walking toward the goal of heaven...I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him...He is the keeper of my heart, my soul, my mind, my body, my hopes and my

dreams..He is my heavenly Father and he has never one time in this life failed me and I know he never will...