This Good Life

I love my Youth Group!

A friend from college posted a scavenger hunt challenge. Apparently him and his buddies did a version of this last year in 2014, and it'll be an annual thing for them.  Although I'm not participating with that group per say, I am certainly intrigued.  And I want to borrow their idea...rise up to their challenge...join their game...

I feel like the past 15 months without Mom has consisted of quite a bit of mourning.  Healthy mourning.  Personal mourning.  It's painful, yes.  Little things can trigger the most heart-wrenching of emotions.  But I feel like I've grieved most significantly over losing Judy Swift Newton .  Judy, as a person.  As a woman. The world has lost her laughter and her joy, her compassion and her love for children.  In this earthly life, we'll never again get to experience her goofiness or her godly advice...that came straight from someone who knew her Lord intimately.  We won't get to smell how her Woman perfume makes her smell like the Judy we all adore.  We won't get to crack up at her silliness, be charmed by her personality, or feel incomparably loved by how she cared for people as beautiful individuals.  I won't get to bet pennies on card games with her or go on crazy "I love Lucy"-esque adventures with her.  I'll miss her being ...

For MMXV:  "What if this year, we resolved to live out Faith ? Faith in God who loves us & has our best interest in mind. Faith that when we are walking toward Him, He will guide us & lead us in the right direction. Faith to believe that God has empowered us with wisdom & courage to make good choices . And then Faith to go ahead & make those choices." What if...?