Here we go again...

I haven't touched this blog in almost two years!  TWO YEARS!  

Life changed again and I got busy in my new life....

God is moving us again....

He is teaching us to lean on Him every moment of every day, because we are not perfect and do not have all the answers or cures, or therapies to help everyone at every moment.

A friend told me this morning that "trusting God is big and scary and sometimes feels really dumb, but His plan is ALWAYS better than our plans even if we can't see it".  We have committed ourselves to following God wherever and however he tells us to no matter what the world says is normal.  

We are growing as a family again.  We are choosing to adopt a child who is waiting for a family...a special needs child who doesn't have hope in an orphanage.   Our family is far from perfect, but our God that we serve is perfect in every way and his plan is perfect to bring Him glory and Him alone.  

"This God--his way is perfect, the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. 

Psalm 18:30

We are filled with joy as we anticipate our next son.  He will be our sixth precious child.  The sixth child to bless our family and to bring God glory through his life.  Give God glory dispite his shortcoming, just as we are all striving to give. 

Will life be easy with six kiddos, three fish, two dogs, and two parents who don't always follow God the way we should?  No, BUT and a big BUT, this is the path that we know without a shadow of doubt is what God has asked us to do.  To not only care for our precious biological children who came to us so quickly and have taught us so much about who we are in Christ, but also for the special needs children in the world.  We've been told that we can't save them all...true...but we can't ignore the calling that God has given us.  We refuse to be like Jonah in the beginning of his story who "was fleeing from the presence of the LORD," (Jonah 1:10b).   

This next year will not be easy, as we move through the painful adoption process once again.  Our faith will be tested over and over and we will endure "various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls." 1 Peter 1:6-9

Please rejoice with us as we celebrate the upcoming arrival of our newest son!  We will name him Theodore.  He is named after my (Rebecca's) grandfather.  As a child, I often found my grandfather reading his Bible.  I also found the scripture verse Isaiah 40:31 on the front of his Bible and on art in his and my grandmother's home.  That is the verse we are praying over our dear son Theo.   

"But those that hope in the LORD will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

"Surly the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it." And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place!  This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." 

Genesis 28:16-17