Babe's and the Bible...

Last night Justin and I went with some our our lifegroup friends to Babe's Chicken to celebrate our friend Pete's birthday. It was such fun! If you've never been to a Babe's Chicken and you're anywhere around the Dallas Metroplex, you have to try it at least once! It is family style, and you get TONS of food!! The waitresses dance/do the hokey pokey/line dance every 20 minutes or so, so it is quite a festive atmosphere! The building is really neat too--I couldn't find the pictures I'd take of it the last time we went, so here is one off the website. It looks like this old, old farm building, that had to have been out enduring the weather for years. It even has old farm equipement and other things that just make you feel like you're joining a farm family for a big supper, way out in the boondocks!! Here is our friend Pete, the birthday boy, doing the chicken dance as the waitresses sang to him. He really didn't want this to happen, but I just couldn't resist letting it slip that it was his special day!! =)

Here is our group--our complete lifegroup is 11 couples with 8 babies, so you can tell that this was just a small group tonight!Here are the close-ups....

Pete and Jolene (with Baby Henry still growing until his due date on May 31st)...

Brittany and Brent, with their baby girl, Casey...

Christy and Will with their baby girl, Keely...

And us!!

It was such a fun time, and we are always reminded how blessed we are to have such wonderful friends!

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Today's verse that I'm focusing on is Isaiah 40:28-31...

"Have you never heard or understood? Don't you know that the Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth? He never grows faint or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to those who are tired and worn out; he offers strength to the weak. Even youths will become exhausted, and young men will give up. But those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint."

I love these verses because there are so many times through all of this that I've just felt plain weary, too weak, sometimes physically, but most of the time emotionally, that I didn't know how I'd go on. But God always has given me the strength I have needed to keep going, to keep believing, to keep hoping. I want to wait on the Lord, to trust Him for the strength I need!

Hope you have a wonderful Friday!!