This date was a big one for Matthew because he started a Discipleship class at our church, Journey Church. This class is a nine month long class that goes through some pretty tough subjects and requires the students to open themselves up in many new ways in order to grow closer to Christ and become Disciples. I am really proud of him for taking on this class and I have seen many ways in which God is working on him during the time that he has been in the class.
I want to tell you all a little story about a day that I had recently, yesterday in fact! I'll start where my day always seems to start: Six am on the dot with a mouth breathing Isabella standing right beside my bed. Anyone else have one of those type of children? The ones that wake at the same absurd hour of the early morning? Both of my children have inherited that lovely trait from their father, not from me! Anywho, I could sense that she was there; standing beside me, staring at me, willing me to wake up. You know, that ability to feel someone's presence before you actually see them? Yep, that is how I wake up most mornings since Matthew left on his deployment. And so the day started! Conner was already awake as well, I could hear him 'talking' to himself in his bedroom. So in we went to get Conner up and changed to bring downstairs with us. Only problem, Conner woke up on the wrong side of the bed on this particular morning. So ...
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