Our Year in Pictures 2011

2011: Dreams Fulfilled, Family Found, Fellowship with Friends, Lots of Fun

Langston Hughes posed the question what happens to a dream deferred.

So many live with the gnawing ache of dreams deferred.

But what happens when your dreams are fulfilled? When what you hoped and prayed for become a reality. When you plant and water and God through His grace and amazing love gives the increase. When the hard work of planting and nurturing, building and dreaming, working and planning finally come to fruition.

Joy.

Not just happiness at the circumstances, but a deep satisfaction and peace because you know you are in the space and place where God intends you to be, even if all the circumstances still are not perfect.

2011 has been a year of dreams fulfilled for the Fountain Family and for that we praise God.

In FountainPens, you will see some of our dreams that have been fulfilled this year. Lost family ties have been bound. A book that lived for years in our heart and mind has come to life. Awards have been won professionally and academically, on the field of athletics and in the discipline of martial arts.

We praise God for every blessing, but most of all we thank God for you--our family and friends.

The greatest treasures we possess are the intangible ones. Our health. Our relationships with family and friends, those who we love and who love us back. Not the things we accumulate, but the memories that we make. Hugging a brother for the first time. Laughing and playing games on a trip to Detroit. Watching your son be a pirate in a play. Singing and dancing under the sky at a music festival in Cincinnati. Driving with the drop top down on a humid summer night. Sitting by a fireplace with the one you love.

We pray that you treasure the moments and that your 2012 is filled with joy.