Monday, September 24, 2012

The God We Serve

God does amazing things.  He is showing me so much of His power that it blows my mind.
Today I had a couple co-op classes that I go to on Mondays, my last class is photography. 
Today we didn't have a lesson, but went outside to practice what we had learned
 the past couple of weeks. 
I use my dad's camera for this class, because it is a little nicer that the camera I usually use, and someone from his work had worked with the camera a few days before, and I hadn't messed with it since.
When I turned the camera on, something popped up saying the memory card
needed to be formatted, and it couldn't record, etc.  The rest of the class was already out taking pictures, and I ran to my teacher and embarrassedly told her the memory card wasn't working, and asked if  I could go in to get my spare. I ran inside and put in the other card.  To make a long
story short, that memory card was also refusing to work.
I tryed to put the contents on my computer and erase it off the disk, but still it didnt work.
By this time I had been gone about half and hour, I ran back out the rest of the class.  My teacher couldnt figure out what was wrong with the card either, and so I decided to give it up and
watch everyone else take pictures, but I was kind of bummed. 
"You can make it work," I prayed, "I know you can.  Please will you make the memory card work?"
I turned the camera on and the same message popped onto the screen - for 0.5 seconds.  I didnt press any bottons, I did nothing, but the memory card started to work, and I was able to take pictures normally.  The camera was working as if nothing had ever happened.
Sure, you could say it just happened to work, but no. I spent half and hour "trying to make it work"  and it didn't.  God showing me that He is bigger.
He has amazing power.
He can move mountains with faith the size of a mustard seed.
That's the God we serve.


We Feel Them

People are praying for our family, we know it.  We feel them.
Things are going great, please keep on praying!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Wow

Wow, so must has happened since I wrote that post about waiting.  I know that God was teaching me about waiting, and now I am learning about things happening very quickly. 
Things are happening so fast it seems overwhelming, but we are all very excited.  I can't say too much for safety reasons, but we'll have two more little people in our house soon!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

We Wait In Hope For the Lord

UPDATE:
Bethany and Kaden are now home!  To read more of our story go here.



The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
 
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
 
to deliver them from evil
 
to keep them alive in famine.
 
We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and shield.
 
In Him our hearts rejoyce, for we trust in His holy name.
 
May your unfailing love rest upone us, O Lord
 
even as we put our hope in You.
(Pslam 33:18-22)
 
I was looking up some Bible verses for school one day and noticed something I had highlighted earlier and forgotten about.   
 As I read it the truth in those verses became so vivid and real.  They spoke to me, reminding me of things the Lord has and is teaching me.
"We wait in hope for the Lord".  Wait.  That is one thing I have trouble with.  I want things to happen now.  I want my siblings to come home now.  I want that science lesson to be over now.  But what about God's timing?  His timing is perfect. 
He knows why, he knows how, he knows when.
We are in a place in our adoption journey where things are taking a little bit longer than hoped, not too long, but still long enough to make me wish things were happening quicker.
Maybe the God wants to teach me about his timing during this part. 
I'm learning it.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Loving it

The weather is finally cooling down, wahoo!
It has been beautiful here, the temperatures are in the 70s, and we have done a
lot of our school out side. 
Inside, the windows are open, and the breeze is blowing through the house. 
We are lovin' it!
 

Monday, September 10, 2012

Picture Perfect

I'm having fun with photo editing! 
Brandon and David have helped me out with being my subjects, and they love to see the finished product.  Here are some favorites:
 






 
Which is your favorite?
 
P.S.  We have some exciting news to post on Wednesday!
 
 

Friday, September 7, 2012

Thank You!

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated baby formula!  We were able to pack one or two big trunk load of it! 

 
So right now we are enjoying being this family....

 
and are looking forward to being this family.  Really looking forward.  A lot.
 
sorry, we still cannot show you their beautiful faces for a couple more weeks:(
 
We are also doing a lot of getting ready, and we almost are... I hope.

ready to travel!
 
 
 
 

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