A Season of Thankfulness

I wrote in my last post that our family has just (hopefully!) come out of a very busy season, and we hope for a more restful one for a while. This is also a time for us to look around our lives and be thankful for what God is up to. The Laynes kind of missed that at Thanksgiving time due to all the insanity that has been our lives of late.

So, here's some things we're thankful for lately:

• Jesus coming down here to hang out with us in bodily form, and everything that follows His Incarnation.
  
• A healthy baby Chloe.
  
• A healthy Emily.
• A warm home when it's cold outside.
• The love of friends and family.
• All the Ridge Church folks we've met and reconnected with since June.
• The opportunities to serve our community in two service projects.
• The prayer and financial support Ridge Church has received from families and churches who are behind us, all over the country.
  
• The opportunity to support church planting and missions with the finances shared by Ridge Church folks (more info on that soon).
  
• All the help we've received with shower gifts for Chloe and all the babysitting offers.
• A "new to us" vehicle for Emily to drive when I'm at work that was given to us by a kind and caring Christ-follower here in Knoxville.
  

The list could go on, of course, because even when times are tough, God provides blessings. Life is like that... For all the tough things in this world, it is still God's world, and when He made it He said it was good. Check out Genesis 1 for more info there...

Have a great New Year!