School is starting this week for School of Mines and we are really excited to see what God has in store for us. We are going to be helping out with Christian Challenge which is a student group on campus led by our good friends Robby & Mary Pruett. We already feel so welcomed into the group and any insecurities of not fitting in or knowing if this is the right thing for us to be doing have been wiped away. Over the summer, we got to know some of the students through a Bible Study and have really enjoyed every minute we have gotten to hang out with them since. We have gotten more babysitting offers than I know what to do with! :)
We are officially settled into our new townhome on the border of Arvada and Golden and have recently welcomed a new roommate, Steve Slater, to our home! He is going to be living with us for at least the semester and we have been blessed by him already. Our new place has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths which will serve as a perfect home for us for the next 5 years or so. All of our neighbors are super friendly too. There is a ten year old girl, Amy, who lives a couple doors down and comes over 3-4 times a day asking to play with Luke! We have really been trying to reach out to Amy and her brother who have just gone through a divorce and live with their mom now. Please keep them in your prayers!Tom and I had a really good heart to heart a few days ago about how we both have let things slip with our relationship with God. If you could even call it a relationship at times. We had a really good wake up call and decided that every night right after putting Luke to bed, we are going to go through a passage of the Bible together and pray through it! We have only done this twice now but let me tell you it has already made the difference! My mind already feels a lot less cloudy and more clear throughout the day. It is so easy to just go through the motions with being a Christian and not experience God. I think the biggest thing is that you have to pursue it! Spiritual disciplines are so important, especially when you feel like you have no time for anything. "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:13) Trust me, He is worth all of your heart!
Luke is doing well, he has had a hard last couple of weeks but today we discovered why! I can already see three more teeth starting to poke through! He loves sticking his tongue out and touching them. He is getting really active lately too! He can crawl and pull himself up and walk alongside tables and couches! Last Saturday, he started standing on his own for a few seconds. It is only a matter of time before he starts walking... His favorite pastime lately has been wrestling Molly, which is pretty cute.
This Fall is going to be pretty busy for us but we are so excited for every piece of it! Tom will continue Caraway Street (a puppet ministry at church), I am going to be involved in the women's bible study at church, we also just found out that we are going to be co-leading our life group with some other friends, then we have a bunch of trips coming up that will be a lot of fun! Including my sister's wedding! :) Please be praying that in all our busyness, that we can stay focused on our Creator. We love you guys! Thanks for listening.
