My son!!

This is my Sunshine. He will be nine years old in less than a month.

He seems so young to me and yet this last week while on a

family trip up to Lake Shasta he made a split second decision

that could have changed our family forever. While we were

watching my BF Bon trying to get up on a single water ski

my sunshine, my princess and our friends son J were in the

front of our ski boat. We have had this boat for over two years

now and have never had a problem or concern about the kids

being up front. As my hubby turned the boat around to

go after our fallen skier we hear a yell from the front of the boat and

only see two kids. J had gone over the front of the boat. As C (J's dad and

my hubby's BF) and I race to the back of the boat ready to dive in

my hubby throws the boat into reverse and then kills the engine.

As soon as the boat is off the kids yell and my hubby goes to the front

of the boat and their is my precious little nine year old boy

leaning over the side of the boat, but

"not to far so that they wouldn't fall in" he tells us later,

with a death grip on J who is trying not to let go of the boat

handle he was holding when he went overboard.

In the split second that J went overboard my, no longer little in my eyes,

boy reached over and grabbed a hold of his friend who was in trouble.

When my hubby grabbed J's life vest and lifted him into the boat he

also had to grab our sunshine's vest because he was not

going to let go of his friend. Later after our tears were dried and

our hearts were no longer beating out of our chests we looked at J's

arm and we see the love our son has for his friend...he left nail marks

where he was holding him so tight.

I thought about ending this blog with a reminder of the Helper

who is always with us but as I am finishing my post I am struck by

the image of Jesus and the nail marks that are on His body

because of the LOVE He has for US!!!

Thank You Jesus!

My sunshine and his buddy J.

Silly, Silly boys!!!!

We were able to have a great time at Shasta despite of

this incident because of God's promise to us in

Jeremiah 29:11 and Romans 8:28 (just to name a few).

I will post again with all the fun memories we had this last week a little later.