God and I have an understanding: we talk to each other about anything. I figure God knows what I’m thinking so I might as well pray about it, talk to Him about it. (Sometimes I don’t even have words to express what it going on inside, but that’s okay. He still listens and understands. ) [...]
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The Joy of Brainstorming with God
Posted in acceptance, devotional, faith, Holy Spirit, prayer, vulnerability on December 11, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Writing our Yes
Posted in adoption, children, faith, memoir, mission, vision on July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Picking up the pen, writing the address, knowing this will go some place far away–and change our lives. Answering the questions, seeing our lives squished down into blue ink on a form. Making big x’s through the yes boxes: yes, we understand Uganda is dangerous. Yes, we will not hold you responsible for sickness or [...]
Not Planned
Posted in faith, health, memoir on July 6, 2011 | 10 Comments »
The doctor looked very sorry to tell me the verdict. She said, “The blood work results came back, and you do have mono.” I tried to gulp in my sore, raw throat and ended up just wincing in pain. At least we finally know what is wrong with me. Over the last two weeks my [...]
a little more { real }
Posted in adoption, faith, mission, Uganda on July 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »
In early November, barring any unforeseen obstacles, we are traveling to Uganda, East Africa. There Delmar and I will work at an orphanage together for four months. It feels good to have made another intentional choice to follow God into another leap-of-faith adventure. Somehow, every time I make a good choices in life, it makes [...]
A Lullaby to our Little One
Posted in adoption, faith on June 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The guardian angel is protectively holding the hands of a little toddler, watching over his every step. As soon as I saw this figurine, I knew it was for us. It was a message to me from God that He is taking care of our children, right now. I almost cried as I held it. [...]
Spinning World
Posted in contentment, faith, health on June 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I woke this morning with all sorts of plans. The first thing I said to Delmar, “I want to go to Russia.” And then proceeded to tell him all the reason I should go this winter. He smiled patiently from his pillow. The next idea was about how to raise money for our potential trip [...]
Africa, Lord?
Posted in adoption, faith, mission, Uganda on May 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Many of you know we are seriously praying about going overseas after Delmar’s internship at Camp Andrews is over. Our heart is for adoption and the orphan crisis. Our long term vision and goals are to adopt ourselves and also to bring awareness to the orphan crisis to the churches here in the United States. [...]
A Happy Surprise
Posted in adoption, faith, mission on April 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It’s always good to be surprised, in a happy way. Someone just blessed us with a large sum of money; whoever you are, thank you very much. It will be used for God’s work: it will probably be used in helping us go on the mission field after camp or our future adoption. Our faith [...]
Our Yellow House
Posted in contentment, faith, home on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We woke up to fluffy snowflakes and a white world in our new house: a little yellow rancher a stone’s throw from Camp Andrews. We moved the last of our belongings on Tuesday. It was a whirlwind of a week: packing, cleaning, settling, hanging up pictures, shopping, organizing. Slowly, our home is emerging from the [...]
A Curveball
Posted in contentment, faith, mission on March 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Life throws curveballs, and sometimes they are very good but hard to catch and figure out what to do with. That’s what happened to us last Wednesday. We were thrown a curveball. We were told that Camp Andrews rented a home down the road; we had first dibs on moving in there if we wanted. [...]
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