... family pictures...

... tomorrow we are going to have our family pictures taken... outside somewhere hoping the weather will be nice and.... the puppies can come along... how amazing is that?

We will have fun and I am sure our great photographer is going to take some cool shots...
It will also be another "first", another sad reminder... over the years we have had family pictures taken every other year, this will be the first one without the husband and father in the picture....we always picked the nicest one and had it enlarged and framed...when we moved I realized that really, these pictures will never be hung anywhere ever again.. all our family pictures...  there is one done for the directory of the church I used to go to many years ago... our youngest was just 6 weeks old... school family pictures, more church directory ones... nice ones on a cruise... and then the "normal" ones... all to be kept in the basement, no longer fit to be hung up.. I asked the kids if they wanted some of the smaller ones in their rooms and they declined... what a waste... strange how as soon as a family is broken apart no one will want to look at those pictures again..
it still blows me away how many layers there are...
with those pictures I will get the Christmas cards done, and once again, a first... no Dad on the Christmas card...
it seems nothing is forever ...but then again... one thing is...the 4 of us are in another family picture which is never going to change...our names have been engraved on the palm of the hand of God the Father...He will never leave us or forsake us, He will not walk out of the family pictures... this family picture is eternal...it is reliable.... we can build our future on it, place our hope in it..
We are sisters of Christ now and forever more. This family is not build on shifting sand but on the solid foundation of the Rock, our Lord Jesus Christ..He has made us His own and His love for us will never allow Him to just walk away... the comfort that we can find in that fact is PRICELESS...