Just Passing Through

This blog is a little slice of our lives.

It's been a place to share my heart in both good times and bad.

It's been a place to share the love of the LORD and His Truth.

Recipes and funny moments and my journal of thanks 

have all been recorded here.

Snippets of the everyday have been treasured up.
  

Piece by piece.  Moment by moment.

Life is just like that...don't you think?

All jumbled up and mixed together and rolled into one.

The good and the bad and the humorous and the painful ~

The regular and the extraordinary. 

These are the things that make up our lives.

What a blessing it is that we do not know the future before it's given to us.

God is Gracious and meets us in the moments.

He walks before us.  He is Faithful.  He does all things well.

These last many weeks we have been thrown into a

new season ~ one in which Austin is only included in our memories.

We are making new ones without him.

We think in terms of before Austin died and after.

It's surreal.  It's difficult.  And, yet...life does go on.

As much as we would like life to stop and stand still awhile ~ It doesn't.  

Why doesn't it?  Why can't it?

It's a mercy, really.  

The way it works is designed by a Loving God.
He has orchestrated it to be so.  Yes, we live.  And, so does Austin.  

He lives in his eternal Home and we live here until the LORD takes us there.
Interesting how that is.  We are just passing through.  

Our Austin has arrived.  Ahead of us.

We will never forget him.

We think of him each and every day.

In fact, we think of him multiple times throughout the day.

He naturally comes up in conversation and in the quiet of our hearts.

We must continually remind ourselves that he is complete now.

His earthly pilgrimage has come to its close.

We are still on ours.

So, we must be faithful.  We must serve.

We must live and obey and follow.

Until that day when we are called Home.

Whenever that may be.

In the days to come, I will remember ~ Austin will be part of that.

He will make his way into posts ~ he is still part of our family.

In moving forward, we are not moving on.

We are just following ~ Austin has gone on ahead.

May we live in such a way as to complete our journey well.

May we be found following our Saviour each step of the way.

Wherever He may lead ~ just as our precious Austin did.

By HIS grace.  For HIS glory.  Alone.

With Love,
Camille

**Photo courtesy of my Uncle Gordon ~
Thank you SO much!  XO