Filled to Overflowing!

Good Morning! This morning I a writing from a hotel room in Tennessee, and I had that awful feeling upon waking that I was lost....nothing looked familiar and nothing was where I might recognize it. Yesterday we droved from our home to Memphis to meet the children's father and stepmom and then to a town past Nashville, TN to have dinner with friends, then on to the internet television studio in Brentwood, TN where we taped and allowed our college boy to see what we have been working on for the past few weeks. He's a video production major at Southern Arkansas University, so this was right up his ally.
Dinner with out friends. Wow, I believe a new standard was set this weekend, first we had dinner with our dear friends in Alabama Friday night. We so enjoyed their fellowship and company and enjoyed so much seeing our youngest children interact. Then Saturday we fellowshipped withour own children as they prepared to go away for five weeks. Sunday night we we so privileged to meet another new friend's family and enjoy dinner at their home in Tennessee. It just felt like God has sent other like minded friends and how good it is to know their hearts and share this journey called ministry that God has placed us on. I don't know that I have ever laughed more, shared more, or been more thoroughly thrilled with three evenings in a row...it was as though God said "You come right here, I have a special creation for you two...and he gave us two beautiful packages made especially for us.....and those perfectly adorned boxes with all their ribbons and curls would have been enough...but inside the boxes was a beauty one cannot describe, there were some of the most beautiful hearts you'll ever know" What a gift, to meet and learn such friends! God has so blessed me with my friends this year....taking the field of friends you all are to a level I could only have imagined as you share your hearts with me!
When Godly friends gather, the time spent together takes on an entirely different level of joy in the fellowship. There are no words to tell you how full Les and I's hearts have been this weekend, how much joy there was in those three days. Just wow!
This morning we have a neighbor child letting the boys out and feeding the geriatric labs too. I think its almost funny that in able to be where I am the most important thing was to find the dog sitter. It was! Thankful for Jeremy who is always willing to come love on our four legged babes when I am out of town.
One of the highlights of the weekend was hearing and knowing that a 13 year dream I have had for a friend of mine began to come true on Saturday. I could not stop smiling each step of the day Saturday knowing that she was about to receive the honor and ability to live exactly who God made her to be....and that I was going to be on the front row cheering her own for the next few months!
God is so beautifully weaving and I am so thankful to be allowed near the weaver with my one pitiful thread...as He beautifully makes me realize that we are all enough if we are just who he made us to be!
God is God and we are not, but He is enough!