More prayers

I promise a more upbeat and positive update later tonight/tomorrow. I have tons of fun pictures from our weekend with the Needham's to share.

I wanted to once again turn to my blogger friends who are so faithful in prayer and ask you to lift up all of the people who will be attending the memorial for Aaron Williamson today at 4:00. Paul, Aaron's dad, came by the office this morning and was his normal perky self and prayed and spoke to each of us at the office. The strength and peace God provides amazes me. Our firm will be sitting with the family as our firm is like a family of its own. For those of you who do not know, 4 years ago our firm sat as family at the funeral of another one of our attorney's who lost his 18 yr. old son in a tragic accident. We are only a firm of 22 people so for us to have to grieve through both of these tragedies in such a short period of time is very hard on us. We have several family events a year and there are always kids running around up here. Most of us have watch these kids grow up and have even babysat some of them.

Please especially pray for the students that will be in attendance. Paul told each of us to expect a difficult and realistic service. They will not sugar-coat Aaron's suicide; they will deal with it head-on as being wrong, sinful (but forgiven by Christ's salvation), and part of Satan's influence in this world. They will also make the service a true celebration of Aaron's life, and use this horrific tragedy as an opportunity to minister to everyone in attendance about the certainty of God's love and our salvation through Jesus Christ. Paul summed it up perfectly this morning, saying "If you can stand it, it will be awesome." I know that God is faithful to save in any circumstance.

I hear the Savior say,“Thy strength indeed is small; Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in Me thine all in all." Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.