God is moving here!!!
 I can't go into details just yet but please, PLEASE pray for God to be honored in all that we set our hands to and that through it ALL many, many more orphans would be set into their forever families! God has a heart for the orphans and so do we so seeing this all come together is like watching a beautiful masterpiece being created. So excited to see what God has planned!

Have you ever read this book to your children? It is an oldie but a goody! It was actually wrote in 1945!
Anyhow, as I read this book to the kids this afternoon it really resonated with me. You see, the story is about a little boy who plants one teeny, tiny carrot seed. As he waits in anticipation for the carrot to grow, his family, not seeing anything growing, tells him the carrot seed won't come up. This however does not deter this little boy. Every day he is out there pulling up the weeds and sprinkling the ground with water.  But nothing comes up. The family is quick to remind him yet again that the seed won't come up. The boy stays steadfast and continues weeding and watering the seed. And then one day, the carrot comes up just as the little boy knew it would. The last picture in the book is of this little boy hauling this huge carrot away in his wheelbarrow. LOL!
This story hit me on so many levels and maybe it will be meaningless to you but I thought I'd share it anyw…

For some very odd reason Nolan has decided he likes wearing his sisters' underpants. LOL! But dang gone if he ain't cute!!! :)

I wasn't fast enough with my camera today as Gabriella dressed him up over and over again. At different points he had on a tutu, a wedding veil, several jangly bracelets, and a lace skirt! Shhh....don't tell my big guys  they would not like it one bit that Nolan had on girl stuff. LOL! However, Gabriella and Nolan had a BLAST!
Life is all about livin' and Nolan feels it should be done with pizazz! :)

I highly, highly recommend this book by Jan Beazely! I could not put it down! Awesome story of how one family's adoption story was used by God to bring about an agency that has helped form countless families through the years.

Here is one of my favorite quotes from the book.....

"So many times we think of "extraordinary" when we think of God. We think that what He does and who He works with always has to be extra-ordinary. We forget He is the God of the ordinary, working quietly behind the scenes - interweaving, entwining our lives with the lives of others as we simply walk in obedience to Him. Then comes the day when our mouths drop open in awe as we see what God was doing behind the curtains of time. And we drop to our knees in utter amazement and humble gratitude to the Lord for using us to impact another person's life in a way we could not have conceived or executed".

                                                           ~from the foreword by Kay Ar…

This is a perfect picture of where we are right now.  I love how God is always there...waiting...for us to just surrender it all to Him. So, we have.... and now we walk hand in hand with the One whom we love and trust with our lives on this newest journey.  We know He has good things in store!!!

Our lives are never more secure than  when they are abandoned to God.

A prayer to walk in love....

Gabriella showing us how to walk in love with pizazz! LOL!
Father, in Jesus' name, I thank You that the love of God has been poured forth into my heart by the Holy Spirit Who has been given to me. I keep and treasure Your word. The love of and for You, Father, has been perfected and completed in me, and perfect love casts out all fear. Father, I am Your child, and I commit to walk in the God kind of love. I endure long, am patient, and kind. I am never envious and never boil over with jealousy. I am not boastful or vainglorious, and I do not display myself haughtily. I am not rude and unmannerly and I do not act unbecomingly. I do not insist on my own rights or my own way for I am not self-seeking, touchy, fretful or resentful. I take no account of an evil done to me and pay no attention to a suffered wrong. I do not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but I rejoice when right and truth prevail. I bear up under anything and everything that comes. I …