Kaya Abigail’s original due date was January 15 (Uncle Sam’s birthday!). At a week late Daddy and I were both feeling frustrated and discouraged. On Monday night (January 25), it seemed as if our baby would never come. We had wrestled with the idea of being induced and were not very excited about it. We […]
I think we’re almost past the point of anticipation. With the baby being over a week past our estimated due date, life is feeling rather anti-climactic. For literally the past month and a half I have been shaving my legs everyday (quite a feat with such a big belly, I might add!) “just in case” […]
Listened to a great sermon the other day by Mark Driscoll: http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/doctrine/stewardship-god-gives
Our baby is due this week. We’ve been expecting her “any day now” for the last month. Nels and I have installed the car seat, hung curtains, bought a few last registry items, washed and folded lots of baby clothes and more. We even painted her name on little wooden plaques with faint yellow flowers […]
My Papa Sam Huston went home to be with Jesus on Thursday morning at the age of 81. As usual, he got up and was doing his morning exercises when the Lord took him home. I’ve never known a better man…I’ve never known a sweeter, more faithful, consistent, loving man. On his way to work […]
“What was happening was happening to us both. I believe it is always so, mutual and, at least at first, equally intense, if it is genuine inloveness. The actual thing – inloveness – requires something like a spark leaping back and forth from one to the other becoming more intense every moment, love building up […]
2 Timothy 2:4 “No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.” In saying this, Paul is urging Timothy to share in suffering for the gospel. The “one who enlisted him” must be God calling him into the ministry…so his aim is pleasing God (later in […]
