Life

Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart."

Psalm 139:13
"You created my innermost being. You knit me together in my mothers womb."

Psalm 127:3
"Children are a heritage from the Lord."


Children are a blessing.

Today I am not talking about having a bunch of kids.

I am not talking about the offensive comments you get when you have more than what's "typical."

I am talking about life.

It's a precious gift God has given us.

Period.

I watched as our nation was outraged by the Casey Anthony trial.

How dare they find her innocent?

How could a mother act like she did when their child had died, especially if it truly was at her own hand?

Our country was horrified.

As they should be.

Based on the details that I have heard, there was no earthly justice for this child.

But how many people would have been horrified had she decided to terminate her pregnancy?

Would our nation have been outraged?

Would we have wept over a precious life?

In 2008, the year sweet Caley died, 1.2 million babies were also killed.

We absolutely need to mourn the death of this precious life that was snatched away at such a young, vulnerable age.



And as a nation, we need to regard ALL life just as precious.

How are you growing in your faith?

Jesus' response to empty words

Is your life conforming to the image of Christ?


I love this devotion for today.

How easy is it for Christians to look like the world?

We need to be constantly conforming to be more like HIM and less like the world.

Where we are in the process......

Sorry to have gone so long without an update. 

Things have been happening but they have been hard to talk about, so we haven't said a lot. 

Over the last several months, the folks at our agency have been investigating the twins lives. Trying to determine if international adoption is the best things for them. They have talked with their relatives to see if there's any way that they can go home. 

There isn't. 

So we are expecting the official paperwork any day now. 

The next step is to send mountains of paperwork over to the attorney and then they will file for a court date. 

The best estimate is for us to be traveling sometime in late fall. 

Please, please keep praying. 

Why does adoption take so long?



I get asked this question often.

And I think it every day.

This is a great post by a fellow waiting mama.

Why does it take so long?

My take

Christians should put up or shut up

I posted this article yesterday, but I believe it deserves another post. 

I have been really pondering it and praying about how I feel about this article. 

This is a really touchy subject.

Most of my family and friends are Christians.

And most have not adopted. 

Most of them feel like it's a great thing that we are doing. And are very supportive. 

But most will never go on to adopt. 

A lot have thought about it. 

But there are reasons why they either can't or wont. 

I don't want to get up on a soapbox and declare that you aren't "christian enough" if you don't adopt. I don't think that way at all.

But I do want to bring light to this. 

Christians are called to care for orphans and widows.

Period. 

We are all called. 

And there are many ways to do that. 

One is adoption. 

Christians should consider it. 

Pray and ask God if adoption is a way that you can obey the command to care. 

Something to think about....

An interesting article,

Christians should put up or shut up......


What do you think? 

The forgotten fathers

As we celebrated the special daddy in our house today, I was hit with a thought. 

We have a special day for Daddy's. We make them breakfast, we give them gifts, we praise them.....

My sweet hubby with the girls and friends on Easter

But I believe that we easily forget some of men we most need to honor. 

What about the dads whose children live in heaven? 

What about the dads who are waiting for their children to come home through adoption? 

What about the other half of the infertile couple who is desperately longing to be a daddy? 

We are quick to support the women in these situations. 

But because of their tough exterior, sometimes we gloss over these special daddies. 

We can't forget these daddies. 

We need to reach out and honor them. 

Even if it's just a word of acknowledgement. 

To my hubby today.....

"I am so thankful for you. And I know that's its difficult not to have all of your children here with you for Father's Day. I know you long for the day you will see your first born son again. I know that you long for the day when you have all of your children under one roof instead of across an ocean. 

I love you and I am praying for you."