Enjoying Fall at the Falkins'

 

John Caden and His Bike

Doesn't he look so grown up wearing his bike helmet?  He truly rides around on his bike like he's 16!

From: "Bring Them to Me"

As posted on girltalk:

"Children are a precious gift from God, but much anxiety comes with them. They may be a great joy or a great bitterness to their parents....In all cases, the Word of God gives us one receipt for the curing of all their ills, 'Bring him unto me.' O for more agonizing prayer on their behalf while they are yet babes! Sin is there, let our prayers begin to attack it....Never must we cease to pray until they cease to breathe...

The Lord sometimes suffers His people to be driven into a corner that they may experimentally know how necessary He is to them. Ungodly children, when they show us our own powerlessness against the depravity of their hearts, drive us to flee to the strong for strength, and this is a great blessing to us. Whatever our...need may be, let it like a strong current bear us to the ocean of divine love. Jesus can soon remove our sorrow, He delights to comfort us. Let us hasten to Him while He waits to meet us."

~Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, September 17, Morning

From "What Every Mom Needs to Know After a Bad Day..."

From Passionate Homemaking:

"...it’s not about the mom you were today. It’s about the mom you’re FIGHTING to be...Friends, we all have bad days. Sometimes we have bad weeks. Maybe you’ve had bad years. But those are the past. We can learn from them, but they DO NOT define us...Our mistakes are part of our journey. They are NOT our definition...We can learn from our bad days, our mistakes and then we must lay them down, leave them behind and fight on."

Pumpkin Patch

Fall Visit to Lost Mtn. Nursery

Double Rainbow

What a treat to see this week as a family--a double rainbow. Wish we could have captured the whole rainbow from one end to the other in one picture!