| We sold our house last Friday. We moved all of our stuff into a storage unit. We are living at my friend's house until Monday, then moving into a rental. Our computer crashed, so I haven't been posting anything on here or Facebook. Jeremy and I are doing pretty well, despite the "up in the airness" of our housing situation. Guess this proves that home is where the heart is. A house does not equal home. We are still looking for the right place to buy. All I want for Christmas is a house on land. |
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| I update a lot on Facebook lately. Our house in under contract, and closing at the end of this month. We are looking for another place to rent because there isn't much on the market for us to buy. We have quite the list of specifics. God is in total control. Our house was only on the market for 3 weeks! Here is a link to see it: www.5925lakeview.com Looking forward to the next chapter of life! |
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| For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Ephesians 2:10 I love this verse! I have really been trying to figure out what God has planned for my life. WOW! This plans are always bigger and better than anything I can dream up. |
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| You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? ~ Matthew 5:13, NLT I love this verse. It is one that challenges the mind to think and the heart to examine where we are with our walk with the Lord. Are we being effective? The Lord put us here to be an example and who his love to everyone. Am I striving to be like Christ even when life doesn't seem to be going the way I think it should? Am I being salt in all situations, or am I being blah when I complain, condemn, judge, etc? I want to be salt. I want to add flavor to this world, just as Christ did. |
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Yesterday was George's 4th birthday (according to his birth certificate). This is the first birthday since we accepted his referral in October 2008. I was blessed to be able to spend a little bit of time with him last month when I was there with a crew of 6 great guys working on the orphanage. He wasn't feeling good at all the first day I saw him, I think he had a tummy ache. But after the kids moved in on Saturday and then we hang out on Sunday until I left for America he was his silly, giggly, onery self. He crashed out on my back and rode around for 3 hours on my back on that last day. He also was apparently ready to go with me as he was intrigued with the suit case he is sitting on and thought that the luggage stickers were a great thing to stick on his face. Look at that sweet face. Oh my little Georgie. With the hold on adoption in Liberia it seems like so many lives are "on hold." We as adoptive parents are adults and can understand what is going on (well the facts of the situation, not really the why). But these little ones in Liberia that so desperately need a home, a family, a life with hope are just waiting. Their little lives are "on hold" as they wait to come home. We pray daily that the Lord will move mountains to open adoptions in Liberia. He is the only one with the power to do that and in him we will put our hope and trust. God and God alone will do what it takes to fulfill his promises to these children and to the families waiting. His will be done. Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. ~ Hebrews 10:23 |
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