Most Memorable!

Out of all the views of Colorado the face behind me was the most memorable. Some of you know Erin and know exactly what I'm talking about. Some of you don't know Erin, so I will explain. Erin is such a delightful, young woman of the Lord! She has a smile on her face in the darkest deepest times. Her demeanor about her is always calm. When I first met this lady she was in a homeschooling meeting in Oklahoma. She was dressed very nice and when she told me she had four boys, I was shocked to say the least! Nobody as calm as she is can have four boys can they? Well apparently so and she has added one more to the pile, little Josiah, peeking his head out from behind her. Erin's husband struggled quite a bit in Oklahoma with his allergies. Due to the fact they did not display themselves in a fairly normal way, sneezing, coughing, or itching, but through his ears and vertigo. He had true vertigo that would last for days and weeks on end. I'm not sure the whole time they were in Oklahoma that he had not even a week free from those horrible spells. Therefore his time with family, job, and church were always extremely limited. Through it all, Erin amazed me! Now before you think she is superwoman, she is not. She completely acknowledged her struggles to many of us that surrounded this woman and held her up with prayer and our very own arms sometimes. But the woman had a JOY that cannot be explained unless you were there with her! This JOY was not happiness but an inner confidence that God was holding her up and having a plan for her. This plan was to prosper her and for her to glorify the LORD! And she did! Glorify the Lord in midst of some very trying times she continued to raise her head to Him. She struggled just like each of us, but her outward and inward stance of JOY was truly so warming to watch. Because of her husbands health problems they moved to an area of Colorado that his vertigo actually went away. However now she is starting all over again. Insecurities, struggles, learning to live where the Lord wants her, a new church, new homeschool group, new friends, and so much more.

So out of all that I had come to Colorado to watch, take in, and see, I saw a beautiful, most joyful woman in the midst of a very real struggle. That is the most memorable picture I come away from this vacation with. She isn't superwoman, nor trying, but she is walking side by side with God holding her in His absolutely amazing arms of His and letting Him lead her. Thanks Erin for allowing this friend to see you as real as you are and still walk away amazed! Love you my friend!