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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

all you need is love

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

plan a



Can't get it to fit right, but you should get the point. :) Have a blessed week.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Pat should meet Abe, though doubt this mama bear would allow it!


I posted yesterday encouraging you to watch the story on the Orphan Summit. While the actual clip on the Summit was excellent and had me "amening" (is that a word?) through it all, I simply wasn't prepared for the exchange between Pat Roberston and Terry Meeuwsen. As Mr. Robertson began to speak, it became clear to me that he was trying to not only caution those listening to be aware of the "risks" of adoption, but was actually trying to discourage it!

Once he said that you may end up with a brain damaged child, that was it for me! I physically got hot, and the tears started to well up! All that I could do was think of my Abe, sleeping in the next room. The tone of his voice clearly conveyed that a child with anything less than a "perfect" or "normal" brain was somehow of less value, less worthy of love, of having a mother and father, siblings, aunts, uncles, friends and cheerleaders...........WHAT?? Would Mr. Robertson have rather my Abe spend his days in a crib in Ethiopia, with muscles so stiff he was unable to move? So thankful that our God is SO much bigger and had such a bigger plan for Abes life, for our lives!

He proceeded to use the reference in Scripture the need to "count the cost" in an attempt to justify his position. Count the cost?? Are you serious? Jesus never gave us an ounce of promise of a happy, stress free life! In fact, he said take up your cross, follow me...."any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple."

Why, why would we do this? David Platt says in Radical, "Why, because you have found something worth losing everything else for. This is the picture of Jesus in the gospel. He is something- someone- worth losing everything for. And if we walk away from the Jesus in the gospel, we walk away from eternal riches. The cost of nondiscipleship is profoundly greater for us than the cost of discipleship. For when we abandon the trinkets of this world and respond to the radical invitation of Jesus, we discover the infinite treasure of knowing and experiencing him."

Pat clearly feels that the "hard" simply isn't worth it, the "counting the cost" is an excuse to not obey the commands to care for the orphan, defend the fatherless. What a slippery slope, if we twisted that and used counting the cost to not ACT, we wouldn't DO anything.

He also mentioned kids, institutionalized, left in cribs and actually repeatedly bang their heads against their cribs. Head over here. Check out this amazing family, just home with two precious girls with Down Syndrome. Little Hailee is 5 and weighs about 16 pounds. She has spent her entire life in a crib and has the marks on the front and back of her head to prove the head banging she has done through the years. Her family is helping to redeem her life. Hailee deserves that as do so many other precious kiddos in orphanages across the world. 147 million or so...........

This is Hailee, eating her very first cake EVER! Can you seriously say she isn't WORTH it?

They are worth it, the "hard" is worth it, losing sleep is worth it-- you know why? Because Christ looked at imperfect us and shed His own blood to redeem us, to call us His own, to give us a hope a future. It is worth it because He is glorified in the process. I'm just not sure how Mr. Robertson doesn't see it. Maybe if Abe flashed him a big ole grin he would.........



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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

story on Summit VI


A feature story on Summit VI will air on the ABC Family Channel at 10 AM EST on Thursday May 20. You can also watch it online at www.cbnnews.com.

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

equipment

We had our fitting for new equipment for Abe and it was so exciting! To see how happy he was made all of us so proud. He worked so hard in both the gait trainer and chair. Prayerfully we will get the new equipment sooner than later, he is ready to go! :)
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Friday, May 14, 2010

radical




Having a hard time finding the words to express how this book is kicking my tail. Like Crazy Love and Hole in Our Gospel, kick. Get it, read it and let me know what you think.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

please pray



"Adoption is not for sissies!" I love that saying because man is it ever true. Would you please lift up my dear friend Gwen and her two kiddos waiting for her to return to Uganda to bring them home?

This is her recent post:

WE NEED PRAYER !!! Tomorrow our very last piece of paper needs to be signed before we can get Joseph / Daisy's passports then on to the Visa appointment and then HOME .. There are two other amazing families walking this same road and bringing home their sweet children ... All these children are from Amani and super sweet friends ... We need this person to feel our prayers and release our children ...

When God's people pray then no matter the answer there is peace ... He says to ask and He will give us the desires of our heart ... My heart's desire is the same as the Lord's..."I will not leave you as Orphans !" The name Daisy has been our confirmation of this journey for months ... Only God could have orchestrated a t-shirt I designed w/ a daisy on it to help raise funds for our adoption and then have our daughter be named Daisy in Africa ... This is His small whisper of confirmation to us as we journey ...

Help me life up Joseph, Daisy, Bobby, and Gift !!! Pray God's mighty hand on the PEN tomorrow (before you go to sleep tonight) ... Thank you for journeying with us ...

I can not wait to tell you all about my precious children ... They are a miracle and all we ever dreamed ... Their brothers and sisters are so anxious to have them home and Daisy already has Scott wrapped around her little finger w/ her sweet voice not to mention that Joseph can dance like His daddy (used too)! PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY !!!!

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"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from becoming polluted by the world." James 1:27
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