I can’t believe it’s been so long since I posted… good grief!
Our family is in for big changes this year. After hosting an orphan last summer, we are seeking to adopt from an eastern European country. It has been a long and faith-filled trip so far, and we still have a long way to go. We need to do quite a bit of fundraising between now and summer when we anticipate our summons to appear in court over there. We would love it if you would visit our fundraising site and make it possible for a child to have a home!
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It’s been a LONG time, and we have BIG news!
March 20, 2013
Makes me want to cry…
August 20, 2011
I think the worst part about having a disorder like trichotillomania is watching it get passed on to my kids. My daughter is 11, and the hormones have begun to surge. Unfortunately, so has the hair-pulling.
I could just cry. I know the road she’s about to travel on. The one that mars your outward beauty and then destroys your self-esteem. The one that makes you want to hide from everything and everyone. The one that closes up your heart and whispers in your ear that you are ugly, you are shameful, you are a disgrace.
Oh Lord, help us to parent her through this by Your wisdom and grace! Help us to help her recognize these lies of the enemy and find her worth in You. Help us to love her in the way she needs us to love her. And please, Lord, PLEASE… don’t allow the echos from my struggle to magnify hers.
Ebenezers
April 15, 2008
Do you ever take the time to celebrate your sucesses, even the little ones? God commanded Israel to observe certain celebrations and commemerate how far they’d come and Who it was that saw them thru. Or He commanded that an altar be built when they reached a certain place so that they would remember where they were and where they are now. We can, too. One of the hymns I love (Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing), has a verse that goes like this: Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by Thy help I’ve come…” An Ebenezer is a stone that the Israelites placed as a reminder of how far God had brought them. Start placing your own Ebenezers. You place them so that you may look back and KNOW God has moved you, you HAVE grown, you ARE farther along than you were. You have markers that shout praise to God because who you are now is not who you used to be.
Look how far the grace of God has brought you.
Encouragement from the Word
April 15, 2008
September 4, 2007
I hate sitting and spinning my wheels. It seems I do that more often when I don’t spend time in the Word. My soul starves for lack of food… and the table is always spread before me!!
Tonight I was looking over some notes I made on some scripture I found this past week. There is such hope for all of us who suffer disorder or illness! This life is precious to God and He takes account of our sorrows and hurts. He will make all things new someday, and give us eternal life where there is no sickness, death, sorrow, or tears. No shame. No guilt.
Psalm 56:8 – You have kept count of my tossings and caught all my tears in your flask.
Joel 2:25 – I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten…
Isaiah 35:9-10 – No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast get upon [this road]; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Psalm 30:5 – Weeping may remain for the night, but joy comes in the dawn!
God promises this. And God is not man… he always keeps His promises.
Well… how about that?! I looked into His word and I was comforted! When I look to him, my eyes are not on me. I put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and He has lifted the weight and calmed my restlessness.
One Cracked Pot 