The lights are up. The house is decorated. AHHH…truly this is just my favorite time of the year! Only this year…it feels different. Yes, we have another child this year. That’s a good different. There are actually a lot of good difference. Isn’t that the case for all of us? Every year the Lord brings […]
Christi and I first “met” almost 4 years ago as we were starting our first adoption journey together. We’d never “met-met”–but met first on our adoption agency’s list serve. And…well, that’s like going through labor together in a whole different way. After we brought home our littles–we met in person at a conference as Rico […]
This post–one of those posts–you hope it’s just a journal documenting my days…and nobody actually comes here to read what I write. Today was one of those days. Good, but hard days. I would take a “do-over” if I could, but I think I actually learn more in the “good, but hard”–so I’ll gulp and […]
Many years ago;)–back in my photography days I met her mom. Not in person. But through a photography forum. We connected as we both had a heart for Africa. They were adopting from Ethiopia. We had a ministry in Zambia. We watched them grow. Later we grew through adoption as well. Then we watched them […]
Community. His body. Oh–how we need it. I almost forgot. Richard and I have stepped into community. Sweet community. Missional community. At first as observers. It’s real. And now–stepping in further. Right now, we are one of the few married couples in this sweet community house church meeting on Monday nights. Mostly singles–75 or so–deeply […]