How Would You Answer These 3 Important Questions?

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  Matt. 16:15 Mark 8:29 Luke 9:20 John 14:6 John 14:10 James 2:19 John 6:35 John 8:28 John 8:58   What other places in God’s Word do you find the answers to these questions? What is the difference between question #2 and question #3 ?     Don’t want to miss new posts? Please connect [Read More...]

10 Ways to Grow a Friendship (for Becky)

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  Tears drip off my chin, landing on the key board. This post is for my friend Becky. Who is moving far away tomorrow. And she gave me this old man smoking a pipe for my birthday. Probably my favorite gift because it represents years of friendship. A record of– Birthdays and marriages. Babies and [Read More...]

Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart

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Yesterday we were in the bathroom and I was doing her hair. In puffs. For church.  She’s three. And we were in a hurry-late-hurry. And that’s always when big questions seem to surface. She asked: “Do you still love me even when I don’t obey?” (She’d just managed to spill a large glass of milk [Read More...]

The eMatrix and Why I Returned My iPhone…

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  I typed the title  in error. And I hit publish, before the post was done. But that’s what it is– the eMatrix. A maze that I’m still untangling. And my sister-in-law asked me to write this post… About iPhones-returned and trying to live out an example for these little ones with eyes always watching. [Read More...]

He Used Them… (when I needed to breathe)

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It happened again this morning. Last night was a rough night and I had incredible intentions of getting up before the kiddos and continuing on with my plan for spending time in God’s Word. But between midnight and 6 am, a certain-three-year-old-someone woke up three times calling for me. Bone-weary. Eyes swollen and puffy. Starting [Read More...]

Possibilities…

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  The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man [Read More...]

From The Chuppies– Merry Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas 2012

Dear Everyone We Love, This is the letter that should have gone out with the Christmas card that you may have already received, may not receive if I didn’t update my address book correctly, or that you may receive twice if I didn’t remember to mark your name off our list the first time I [Read More...]

Do You Have a Passion Child? (Sharing over at The Better Mom today)

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  I’ve shared before about how my husband and I are praying that God will grow our children into–  “World Christians”. And today I’m sharing over at The Better Mom about one way that God has blessed our family in this area. It would mean a lot if you stopped by to meet our “passion child”. [Read More...]

Seven Reasons That We Love Adoption (and why I think about it every Day-Before-Thanksgiving)

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Three years ago… Our adoption of Lydia was finalized on the day-before-Thanksgiving!!! And this post– Seven Reasons That We Love Adoption Will conclude our mini-adoption-series for November, National Adoption Month. If you missed the other posts in this series you can find them here: And Then He Told Me that I’m Adopted (our adoption stories) [Read More...]

The Most Important Question You Should Ask About Adoption

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  We had many questions when we started seriously considering adoption… And those questions shifted as we wandered down our adoptive journey and especially as we took a hop of faith toward our second adoption. If you haven’t read Part 1 of this mini-series, you might want to check out our adoption story before reading [Read More...]

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