Happy Halloween

"God knows what I need." This line in a song at church today just really stuck out for me. It is so simple and I feel like we are told this all the time, but for some reason today it really made a point. I don't know where everyone is at right now, but this is what I am going to try to remember this week. God knows what we all need.

One song that has been played the last couple Sundays has one line that is particularly powerful and it makes me think of my kids. "Give us souls that never close, to the grace that you bestow."

With everything these kids have been through they are still open to being loved. They crave that grace and we need to be open to receive that as well. These children prove that hope is real. Hope lives in them. These beautiful children who have been physically, sexually, and emotionally abused, neglected, used, and forgotten can still learn to love again and have faith in the world.

So here are some pictures to make you smile! We celebrated a birthday today and got to take the kids trick-or-treating. There is nothing like a Halloween spent with 6 young children who have never celebrated Halloween before, please imagine the excitement and chaos in our house!

So we had a fish, a spider, a bumble bee, a cheerleader, a witch, and a butterfly princess. I was a ladybug...sorry no pictures :) They were all completely adorable, especially our baby in her fish costume. In the picture of the two girls the one on the right is a bat. She used to live in our house and the last picture is of trick-or-treating..YAYY!!!!! What a wonderful reminder of what is good in life.