Moments with grandchildren are always fun!  This was especially true last week in Atlanta for Halloween..

Sunday morning church with Travis.

Pumpkin Olympics with Callie at her school.

First place family costume contest…Star Wars!

Our super pilots Rae and Darth Vader.

A special moment happened in Church as I sat beside Molly in worship…such a precious time for me. As we sat together I noticed something in the sanctuary at Mt Bethel United Methodist Church.  A dove perched high upon a stand. I had not noticed it before, and had never seen a sculpture of a dove before present in the sanctuary.  It appeared as if it had just flown in through the window and heightened my awareness of the presence of the Holy Spirit for me.

After worship, Molly and I stood outside the sanctuary in a rotunda area  between two doors open to the outside.  I was explaining to her how God exists as one person, yet three in one called the Trinity…Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.   “The Holy Spirit is God present with us now, around us and inside us.  It’s like the wind.  You can’t see it, but you can see its manifestation”, I explained.  “Like those leaves on the tree blowing”, Molly said, pointing to the tree outside the open door.  “Yes!  And we can feel the wind”, I continued.  Just then, a wind blew through the open door and we felt the breeze around us and  between us like an embrace.  “Like that?”, smiles Molly.  “Yes!  Just like that!”  We hugged each other. We both knew.  God was present in that very moment.

Indeed, there was a special wind blowing all weekend.  Thanks God!

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