Monday, September 24, 2007

Hospitals


We've been in a lot of hospital rooms recently, my stepfather went to ICU with a suspected heartattack (he's ok), we've had a few elderly members of our church in for surgery, and one of my girlfriends had a baby boy. That is a wide variety of moments. But I was truly impressed with one of my visits. I was visiting a man that I know who used to go to our church. I had been drawn to him and his wife from the very beginning of our time at our church. What I encountered in that hospital room was a couple that was confident of their Lord's provision and he was happy to stay or go. I was impressed in some of the other rooms I visited by fear, worry, or uncertainty. But here was a man with failing memory, a long list of past surgeries, and exuding a quiet confidence that he would either be healed or be in Heaven. I was struck by the desire to live my life with that type of confidence and faith. Not to be ruled by fear in a dark moment but rather without surrender, live with humor and acceptance of God's provision.
Okay, so that's my deep blog for the day and I'll lighten it up with a little photo of Micah. Stephen's mom is going in for surgery on Wed so he's been playing dr.

Times they are a changin'

I saw something today that really suprised me. You know those road side salesmen? You know the ones that usually sell watermelons, or towels out of the back of their trucks? Well today while driving down a farm to market road I passed a guy with painted wooden signs staked along the highway advertising his wares. What was he selling? Bluetooth headsets. I just thought, that was weird!

Friday, September 21, 2007

Back into blogging

So it's a little overwhelming to re-enter the blog world after taking a nice hiatus. Okay, so it wasn't a break to relax, but I'm finally into the 2nd trimester(or 8th if I get to count them all) so I'm back to eating again, at least most days, and I'm developing quite the pot belly. Too soon you say, only 14 1/2 wks you say, but hey its my third so give me a break if I'm already complaining my pants are cutting off my circulation right at the belly button!! Stephen's glad I'm out of the napping every 2 hrs stage and Micah's excited I'm back into running around the playground again.
Let's see what else is new, we have made the decision to spend the Spring entirely focused on support raising so we will be able to move to Tanzania in July. Because of that we will be leaving our wonderful church here (and AWESOME youth group) to move to Houston. We're hoping to connect with some church's there and save some cash by renting from my Dad. So we'll be leaving Dallas, sniff, sniff!! But we'll be back to visit with baby!!!
ALright, I'll sign off for now hopefully the next blog will be more clever and contain pictures!