Mid-Season Update

I took Josiah out in the stroller yesterday for an evening walk and couldn't help but notice changes everywhere. The air has gotten brisk and the leaves are almost completely gone. As I walked I pulled my sweater a little tighter as I recognized the many changes coming with the end of fall approaching.



I am beginning to feel closure with the chapter we are in. Seven more regular season games to go and time is quickly escaping. I'm already mentally preparing for what awaits us after season. There will be waves of different emotions as we put our things in storage and head south for the winter. We should know by March what our future holds and where we will be headed next, whether back with the Redskins or another team.



This takes me to childlike faith. In Matthew 18:3 Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." 

Jesus wants us to trust in Him, have faith in Him, and to depend on Him the way a child does their parents. He wants that beautiful, raw, complete dependency.

It is easy for us as adults to be self-sufficient, unlike a little child. With our independent mindset it can be hard to recognize our need to be dependent on God. Dependency on God requires a childlike faith. At our core we need to truly know, not just believe that He can do anything.

This year has been a HUGE faith builder for us, and has been a roller coaster of ups and downs through out each week. We are clinging to our faith in God's plan even when things seem unclear and uncertain. These are the times that we grow the most, and that our story can touch the most lives. We are learning to be little children again.  


Romans 12:12 says, "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." 


This verse is the foundation of what we are trying to be this fall. 


Philippians 4:7 says, "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Just as parents want to guard the hearts and minds of their children, Christ wants to do the very same for us. We are his little children. This verse explains the peace that has finally settled over our hearts. Peace from God transcends all understanding. Although our situation has not been ideal we have found an unexplainable joy and peace which transcends even our understanding, all thanks to God. Thank you to God for letting us be little.

This is just a mid-season update on where we are. I hope that if you are in a trial or a season of uncertainty, you will find encouragement in our story and that you will stay little.