Category Archives: Family Stories

It’s all about faith.  It’s all about faith! The beauty of belief in the hidden things! It’s all about faith! This is a song the kids learned at VBS this year.  I love this song and what it says, as I’m one of those adults who tends to not look at life through the eyesContinue reading “It’s All About Faith”

We awakened early on the seventh day.  We were nearly an hour outside of Yosemite, and we wanted to be there shortly after the park opened. I was the first one up, ready to go quickly, and by the time the rest of the family was dressed and fed, it was only 8 am.  IContinue reading “Road Trip 2009: The Seventh Day”

We said goodbye to the City by the Bay.  It was a fun time, and we will probably come back.  There’s no way we saw all the historical sites we wanted to see. Before we left though, we had a visit to make.  Our hotel was just south of the Golden Gate National Cemetery inContinue reading “Road Trip 2009: The Sixth Day”

Now I know why my mother, the National Park junkie, wanted to come with us on this trip.  We visited several amazing National Parks and Historic Sites in and around San Francisco, and were blown away by the beauty and history of this city. We decided to start the morning off at The Presidio, theContinue reading “Road Trip 2009: Day Five”

San Francisco is full of wonders. We started the day a little late, enjoying a Sunday morning for sleeping in–something we don’t usually get around our family, due to my job at church.  I did wake up early enough to think of the gang at New Life Church and pray for a great day forContinue reading “Road Trip 2009: Day Four”

I never thought I could look at a tree and see the face of God. Yesterday, (Saturday, August 1), we drove through the Redwoods National Park and saw some nice trees and some beautiful coastline.  We stopped at the Park Information Center and picked up Passport Books for August and Autumn, and the kids allContinue reading “Road Trip 2009: Day Three”

After a great first day, we got off to a slow start again on the second day. We slept in a bit, ate an awkward breakfast with the rest of the residents of the Comfort Inn–awkward because we are a family of six being forced to sit and eat at a table created for four. Continue reading “Road Trip 2009: The Second Day”

After getting a lot of stuff done to prepare ourselves for the first day of the big trip (and leaving a few items behind), we hit the road at about 2 pm.  Traffic was slowly starting to get a little crazy, and I was already itching to get off the interstate.  One thing we learnedContinue reading “Road Trip 2009: The First Day”

I met God in Beverly Hills. He was taller than me, and He had a long beard. I’d always pictured him that way, but in my mind’s eye God’s beard was milky-white and his presence was full of glory and majesty. When I met God, his beard was long (but brown and greasy), and insteadContinue reading “I Have Seen the Lord God Almighty (And Signed His Shoe)”