The Ferguson household is running crazy like always.
Cole seems to be holding his own for the moment. We think we are seeing some early stages of dementia but with the way this stuff progresses we don’t really know. We just love him and hate to see him have such a horribly hard time. but that’s life–and God is still in control. Can I get an Amen?
Conner will be 13 in a couple of weeks. Hormones galore–but that’s the way it’s supposed to be at this stage. The years are flying by. Isn’t this the age where you can legally put them in a box? Just kidding.
Casey is Casey and keeps us all on our toes. I don’t know if every four year old is a trip, but he certainly is! If you can’t handle the humor and logic of a four year old boy, stop reading and skip to the next paragraph… From his mouth this past Saturday: “Hey. My new underwear has a pocket in it. Whoa. My pocket has a pee pee in it.” How can you not laugh?
Maybe the biggest change is in the life of our oldest son, Kyle who has a birthday in a few weeks as well (24). On June 19, he will marry his beautiful bride-to-be, Karissa Lupo. We are thrilled with her! After their honeymoon, Kyle and Karissa will move to Murray, KY where he will become the new campus minister for “Racers for Christ” at Murray State University.
Life is full of changes.
Some of them are not what we want. But some of them are wondrous indeed.
Give me a few more days, and I’ll be sporting a new number. How in the world did 48 creep up on me?
Like I said, changes…
Headed to Montgomery. Karissa graduates from Faulkner University in the morning…
God bless–enjoy your changes!
Les, Jr.
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The only constant is change my friend. Embrace em and roll younster!
Les – Your Casey story is funny! Little kids are so precious and so – out there, ya know?! No wonder Jesus says we should be as little children.
We continue to pray for you and Cole and family. You DO have a lot of changes going on. As for 48 – that’s a great age. The 40s are great years!! Enjoy them.
Much love,
Dee
Short story:
I came to faith right after high school. Went to college, got married, had kids, started a career and volunteered at church. Eventually I got on staff at a church. That finally put the effluent right in my face… and I asked God what to do. I knew the answer involved “different”. We started a church, to be utterly real, led by his Spirit and the Bible, and reach out to those not enamored with “church”. That bore some fruit, but was overall very painful. Crap, now what. … Burned out… I deliberately emptied everything I was out to God and said, “Okay, please burn up whatever is not of you. i don’t care about what I’ve always thought, or been told, or thought mattered. Jesus rose from the dead and I love my wife and kids. Everyone and everything else… light it up.” That was late 2006.
It was a painful, but beautiful liberation. Much unlearning has taken place. The church we started shut down in early 2008. We now are free of any thoughts of building an organization… a thing… there is just life, with Jesus at the center. I just want to simply follow Jesus, right here, right now, together… with others who think and feel the same. And we are.
The fruit of the last 5 years is at: http://livewickmedia.com/
Ha. I had NO idea how different He meant…