Reflection day

Today has been a sad day---Brant and Dea's last Sunday at our church was today. I know preachers come and go.....but 13 years is a long time and  I have become emotional as I have reflected. They came when Blair was just getting ready to start kindergarten. I had just started teaching a GA group and they came to my first party. It was supposed to be swim party at my moms but as is happens in Sept it go cold and rained. Party ended up inside, they showed up so young and cute. I was a new teacher and they were the new preacher family. That Halloween we had a carnival and everyone dressed up and Brant showed up as a woman. Fun times. Church camp and delivering goodie sacks to the old people with Dea. On one hand it seems like yesterday and on the other it seems so long ago. People have come and many passed away. We have all grown up. They have 5 kids. Precious kids that have been born and raised in our church family
It was a sad day, lots of tears and harder than I believe most people thought it would be when they pulled into Church.
I was watching the family memory video and I was sad and yet very proud too. It had so many fun memories and made me realize how thankful I am to be part of a church family, thankful for all the friendships and proud of who we are as a church. Brant and Dea are going to do great and they have a new family waiting to love on them. We are going to do great too. We don't know what the future holds but I know and trust that God does and it is exciting to see who He has in store for us. Then we get to start again, building friendships and making memories.It is all going to be ok.

I started this last Sunday and never finished it and here I sit trying to complete it and begin blogging again....so my thought for today... start what you finish!!!