“For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11
Graduation… a time to reflect on the abundant goodness of the Lord in the past. A time to evaluate your direction in life in the light of Scripture. A time to set goals and make decisions. A time to commit everything anew to the Lord, knowing that in His perfect sovereignty, He will work it all together for His own glory, and your best good.
By God’s grace, I walked through this door this past Saturday as we celebrated my high school graduation. Many dear friends and family members came to join the festivities, and the Lord gave us a joyful, tremendously encouraging afternoon and evening together.
An oh-so-extra-special blessing was having both grandmothers there, as well as a dear cousin who came all the way from NY at the age of 94 to see her namesake graduate!
Family shots 
Music presentation
Fellowship… glorious fellowship!
Willing helpers
An emerging tradition – that of doing some shooting after the graduation — turned into a painful, educational, and actually quite hilarious experience. (That 50-caliber beast – an elephant gun for safari hunting that was loaned to us for the occasion – had the audacity to “scope” us!) Needless to say, for the rest of the evening, we sported beautiful cuts and goose eggs.
To God be the glory!
Beautiful pictures! Looks like you all had a wonderful day =) We wish we could have been there to celebrate with you!
God bless you Kathryn!!!
Love,
Sarah
Congrats Kathryn!! What a great accomplishment I am sure it feels real good to have high school done with!! Do you know what you would like to do from here? Whatever you decide just remeber to always follow the Lord!! And btw you still look so pretty even with that big bump on your head!! Love you all lots Sarah!!
Well we were sad that we couldn’t be there, but our foreheads are thankful that we missed out 🙂
May the Lord bless you with abundant joy-filled days with your family. What a precious gift that so many don’t have. Savour it daily!!!
Congratulations!!!
With much love,
The Martins
Yay!!,Kathryn! Thank you for inviting us, wish we could of made it! 🙁 Soo… what are you going to do now?! (Ok!,I’m kidding, I know you already answered that! 🙂 )
Congratulations Kathryn! I am so glad I was able to come to your graduation.
That’s great Kathryn!
God bless you as you plan for the future!
Reading this made me cry! (too many reasons to list here)
God is so good.
Congratulations Kathryn! It looks like a wonderful celebration and everything looks beautiful! I have to ask though – how did three of you get forehead injuries? God bless you!
Thank you for the encouraging comments, everyone! A couple have asked about the damaged foreheads, so I thought I’d answer in slightly clearer terms. The gun we were shooting had a scope mounted on it (basically a small telescope). When we shot the gun, the force of the recoil caused the scope to come back and hit us. 🙂 (Keep in mind that an elephant gun has a HUGE recoil, so it makes the scope come back really HARD and FAST, causing our bruised and bloody foreheads. :)) Getting “scoped” is a somewhat common thing; it was just a new experience for me. 🙂
Oh Kathryn! What a wonderful celebration this appears to have been PTL! We thought about you during the day. Lord willing we will be able to make it to your place soon!! Congratulations!! 🙂
Thank you for explaining Kathryn. Who would have thought there would be wild elephants in North Carolina!! Just kidding, but I would seriously think of some type of forehead/face protection!
Congratulations dear sweet friend! I thought about you and prayed for you all during the day……I just wish we could of been there. Love you!