Ten equals one and a half

In our last email we explained how we were $175 away from having our
monthly support budget completely met. If you are not on our email list, please send us a comment (by clicking on the word 'comment' at the end of this post) and we will add you!

We don't have the final numbers quite yet, but we are very, very close!!! THANK YOU to all
who responded and prayed for us! We are very anxious to see exactly where it stands. We will let you know as soon as we do. But please, don't stop praying!

We feel so humbled and in total awe of what has transpired this past year and a half.




We set out last January in 2007, totally unsure of anything that was to come. When we say unsure, we mean it in the truest sense of ever understanding what that word means!

We know that it has been a year and half, but we feel like we have grown about 10 years in learning who God is to us through all of this. How much He cares about every detail, and how much He is in control of it all and we don't have to worry. Our faith in Him to give us the grace we need has grown immeasurably!

Learning is good, it is painful at times and it can be exhausting.

But we are better because of it.

So many times I think we, as humans, shy away from this sometimes painful process of learning and growing. We don't want to do the 'work' it takes to come out better on the other side. We just would rather stay where we are instead of trying something else. Maybe because that is more safe to us? Maybe because the pain or problems that we are currently experiencing are less than what we perceive the pain would be to change. Sometimes,too, we don't really realize the coping mechanisms we have put in place to deal with things that aren't as they should be.

God doesn't want us to live with any of that! It's amazing how as we step out to do something that is new to us, God brings us through it learning so much about ourselves. We need to continue to step out in faith to do things that challenge us!

We can't stop just because it gets a little difficult.

We can't stop because it doesn't 'feel' good.

We can't stop because we don't see or have the answer.

The question is always, where is our trust? Who do we look to for provision, for our joy, for peace?

We can't explain how thankful we are to be where we are today. We owe it all to Him and His hand on our lives.