Drawn from the archives… On a day when we need a little 1 Thess. 5:11 to fill these walls. “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up…” I want a kid named Barnabas. You know… That son of encouragement. (Acts 4:36) But first I have to change my own name. And listen when I [Read More...]
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...]
“Everyday we wake up and we chase something or we chase an invisible God.” – Jennie Allen, Chase I’m always a little scared to started reading something by Jennie Allen. Because it’s almost impossible to walk away– Unchanged. God has a way of using her words to clear through the haze and to help me [Read More...]
Things have been pretty heavy around here lately. And taxes are due NEXT MONDAY!!! So in honor of filing our 2012 taxes, just wanted to share this one with you… Dear I.R.S. Lady, 2:59 pm–I am already late to pick up our big kids, but still stop to get the mail. Bad choice. [Read More...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
I don’t know why it never “clicked” before– How I’m adopted too. But somewhere in the middle of our first journey down the road of adoption, I came across these verses… “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, [Read More...]
But the LORD said to Samuel, For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart. ~ 1 Samuel 16:7 …so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:12 Woe to you, [Read More...]
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