the adair's: My Summer of Hope

I stumbled across this passage a couple of days ago and felt INSPIRED!

1 Peter 1: 3-9: Praise to God for a Living Hope

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. ⁸Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ⁹ for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

This past week my best friend of 26 years had her first child. How amazing it was to experience this blessing with her. It was a little bitter sweet to say the least. However, over the last week waiting on Maggie Beth to come home, I have become renewed in my faith, my hope and my purpose. Life has been a TRUE JOY because of this tiny miracle. I love you Amanda and Bryan and our sweet Maggie Beth.

Our summer has been jammed packed with laying out at the pool to baseball to hanging out with family to church softball and more..enjoy a few photos of how its going ...