Behind The Scenes - Restoration

 

 

Linking up with Crystal Stine for Behind The Scenes...... Restoration

 

This picture was taken at my son's graduation for Flight Academy, a camp that kids can attend from 7th grade until 12th grade at the Naval Air Station close to our home.  Last year was his first year attending.  Last year I was knee deep in the hurricane of changes our family was weathering.  His graduation was stressful and emotional because we were trying to keep it together for just one day, to just make it through.

 

This year, the second year of his camp, his graduation brought restoration.  It showed the power of God's love.  It showed truly what obedience to His ways and His word can bring.  We established a tradition in the middle of our imperfections.  We look past the messy to love the person underneath.  Because we are all messy.  We are all imperfect.  And we are all in need of grace and a Savior that loves beyond all measure.  We are a family regardless.  Broken but remade......wounded, but learning that sometimes we hurt those that we love the most, because they are the ones in the end who stick with us and who show us His amazing love when we let Him shine through the cracks of our shattered vessels.  One more hard day replaced with a good day.  One more good memory to replace one we might have rather forgotten.

Isaiah 61:7-9 New International Version (NIV)

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

 

⁷ Instead of your shame
you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.

⁸ “For I, the Lord, love justice;
I hate robbery and wrongdoing.
In my faithfulness I will reward my people
and make an everlasting covenant with them.
⁹ Their descendants will be known among the nations
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”