Dan put it well today “we are becoming really good at juggling a lot of things at one time and finding ways to make them work.” What he was referring to was our schedule this weekend b/c it was absolutely crazy til about 2 hours ago. Now we have nothing on the schedule, which feels…
The other day I found the journal that I had written in when I was going through my open heart surgery in late 2000-early 2001. I found it pretty cool that I came across it, especially after what we are going through now. Never in my mind 10ish years ago, would I think we would…
Questions. Questions require answers. Questions have emotions in them. The Bible is filled with people who have questions. Questions about who God is. Questions about callings. My life is no different. My questions have the emotions. What if I never had a heart condition? Why now? What is the next step? Why would God take…
I’ve thought a lot about expectations today. Expectations that people have for us and expectations that I’ve had for myself. People have just expected us to have kids and probably still do. People may expect us to adopt now. I’ve lived a lot of my life in expectations – people expected me to be good…
A new day. Monday. I was looking forward to today since yesterday b/c yesterday was hard. I woke up thinking it’s a new day! A new day for new adventures. A new day with renewed thoughts. That’s what it has been so far. I worked this morning at church and then head to the bookstore…
I’m having one of those moments of utter frustration – I’ve kind of felt it all day. A couple times today I got all teary eyed for the most random reasons. I look at our youth group kids and get teary eyed. I see little kids and I get teary eyed. I think about what…
