Some are more in love with their opinion about issues and communicating to those they will rarely see or never meet, than actually forming in-person relationships that will confront any hidden hypocrisy. Trust me. I know. I did it for a long time and still struggle with it.
Read MoreTo read Part 1 (Parent Trap) click here or Part 2 (Helpful Hardship) click here. This will be the third and final post of this series. My first post recognized the gracious process of the Lord to humble my pride-filled heart over time through merely one example and facet of life (parenting), although I could have shared many others. The second post highlighted the transition that our lives made as God humbled us and we began to follow...
Read MoreFirst off, no baby #3 yet but contractions have been pretty intense over the last day or so. Less sleep, here I come! There hasn’t been much time for the blogosphere these days due to constant transition, being somewhat homeless for 5 weeks, struggling to get health insurance so we can get into the doctor for the first time, realizing that our due date was a month off and we were due a month earlier (!!), and a plethora of other...
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Our family has been in transition for around 2 weeks now. Really we have been in constant transition for the last 9 months or longer but who’s keeping track? Seriously though, the last few weeks have been filled with sleeping in basements (thank you to those who made a place for us in this time), filling our truck with everything we own…again and being humbled once again in how we don’t have it all together. :) There...
Read MoreOver the last several weeks I have had several people ask me what it means to follow God. To listen and obey wholeheartedly. The question always comes in light of what our family is currently doing. Finances usually end up as one of the central points to the conversation. However, most the time I find that it is the uncertainty that surrounds our life which really takes the spotlight and underlying attention of all questions. Whether...
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Since arriving in Portland, the subject of death has come up in several different ways and been closer to home than usual. Yesterday (February 13, 2012) we received some news that we had been dreading. Our 9 year old niece Mercede (Grace’s side of the family) had passed away after an intense battle with leukemia. On June 9, 2011, Mercede Joy was diagnosed with Acute Monoblastic Leukemia(m5). She fought the aggressive cancer...
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Since picking up our newest home in Minnesota several weeks ago, a 29 foot travel trailer, we have experienced little sunlight. As we traveled across the northern states of the U.S. we encountered a blizzard in Montana, significant winds in Idaho, freezing rain and ice in eastern Oregon before finally arriving in our current location of Portland. To say it mildly, it was quite a journey with many obstacles in getting to our...
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As far as the “WHY” behind what we are doing this year…? Simple answer is obedience. But let me preface a longer answer to that question. Before I do, if you haven’t checked out my blog post around the “WHAT” – UPDATE then I would encourage you to. It will make more sense of this post. It has been several years now that we as a family began asking the Lord to reshape our hearts and lives to...
Read MoreSo much has been going on in my heart, and it is swirling around my head in a rapid way at the moment. Usually that ends with a forceful, forward movement in my heart when it is all said and done. We’ll see where it ends up, but I am excited at what the Lord is revealing in this hour of history and how God’s mercy has beckoned me to be a part of it. Something that has been rooting and grounding itself deep on the inside of...
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