The Paine Family

We had a wonderful Christmas … together … just as a family. There was a home, a fire, snow, each other, times of reminiscing, times of laughter…it was simply wonderful!

It amazes me at how fast the past six months of have gone by since leaving Indy. Though the time has gone by so fast, it feels like years when I try to think back to that time…so much has taken place! Through the many changes that we gone through this past year, God has not changed. He has been every so faithful to us and His mercies are new this morning just as they were on June 6…the morning we left Indy.

It has been the first Christmas in a great while that we have spent all alone, in a house that we sort of call our own. =) God has been so good to us and we are very grateful for His goodness. We are looking forward to this next year with anticipation at what God is going to do.

These are troublesome times for our nation and, to those who have no hope, the future is fearful. But we have a hope…and our hope is not in a man or a government, but rather it is is the One who created life itself, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.It is in this hope that we are assured of His everlasting presence and love in our lives no matter what takes place. This is the hope that I have.

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39

May God give us a new measure of grace for the things that we will be facing in the years to come! God bless you all!