2Nov2019 Request Answered

#J was able to walk onto his school's soccer team.  Unfortunately he was injured in his first match and has been healing up and rehabbing for the last month or so.  Last night #J was able to boot up and played in the university's regional tournament and actually scored his first collegiate goal.  Oh how we wished we could have been there but what a great memory and amazing accomplishment. #proudfromafar 

24August2019 Different

It’s just different.  We’re discovering there are good things and bad about this new stage of life.  One of #10littlefeet has flown the coop as it were.  Today D and Z helped move J into his dorm room, hugged him goodbye and boarded a plane back overseas.  What do you get when you cross excitement and dread, being proud and being overwhelming sad simultaneously?  One positive from all of this is the revelation that may seem silly but that we’re exceedingly grateful for.  Our family loves one another.  What a gift from God that each member cares deeply for the other.  Of course, that also means pain in separation but what a tragedy it would be if we felt nothing!  So, we praise Him for that AND we’ll trust Him with J from 6,300 miles away and with his siblings  6 feet away…at least we are trying to.

How are we doing with the new normal?  It’s good.  It’s bad.  It’s just different.  

29March2019 Eighteen!

This cat turns 18 at around 3:30 this afternoon. Mercy!
He’s is God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that he should walk in them.

15March2019 Run Forest Run!

Thank you!  We asked you to pray for J, Z and their amazing teammates as they ran the 250 kilometer relay-marathon from the Dead Sea up to the Red Sea.  They ran, well flew, the 155 mile course, taking first place and beating their course record, crossing the finish line in 13 hours, 8 minutes and 33 seconds.  They completed successfully, safely and giving glory to our God.  Praise Him!

17November2015 Quickshot: Change

This is how you change the world for the better.  So humbled by the amazing children God has gifted us with.  May we rise to the challenge of leading them to Him and sometimes follow their example of childlike faith.

29March2015 Fourteen

 

This young man turned 14 today.  FOURTEEN! We are so blessed to have him in our lives and love the person he is and the man Father is shaping him into.  

A friend recently shared that for each of their children's birthdays they claimed a Psalm, the chapter corresponding to the number of candles on the their cake.  We love this idea.  So for J's fourteenth we are praying and speaking Psalm 14 into his life:

The fool says in his heart,
    “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
    there is no one who does good.

 The Lord looks down from heaven
    on all mankind
to see if there are any who understand,
    any who seek God. 

All have turned away, all have become corrupt;
    there is no one who does good,
    not even one.

Do all these evildoers know nothing?

They devour my people as though eating bread;
    they never call on the Lord. 

But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,
    for God is present in the company of the righteous. 

You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,
    but the Lord is their refuge.

Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
    When the Lord restores his people,
    let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

May he always see the world around us as it is.  May he acknowledge with his very life that there is in fact a God and may he rejoice and be glad knowing that one day the LORD will restore His people.  Amen!  Happy birthday J!