Archive for December, 2009
A Corrective Lens
According to the eye doctor, I am nearly legally blind without my glasses or contacts. Seriously. If you were standing a foot in front of me, I would not be able to make out the details of your face. Enter the miracle of corrective lenses. Wow. How unbelievably ridiculous is it that I can put [...]
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Merry Christmas!
Yes, I have failed again. I did not send our Christmas cards for the third year in a row. I will do it next year – I’m making a resolution. We greatly appreciate all of you that sent us Christmas cards and we will be praying for you and your families.
We still want to say [...]
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With Great Anticipation
400 years of silence between the prophet Malachi and Jesus; the Old Testament and the New. 400 years of waiting, hoping, doubting, wailing – wondering if God was really a keeper of promises. 400 years of listening and hearing nothing. It must have been agonizing for the people of God.
But how much harder was it [...]
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two stockings
We are probably still a couple of years away from beginning the adoption process, but I thought about my future kids for the first time in a real way not too long ago. I was ordering a Christmas stocking for Evie to match the ones that Halim, Malachi and I have. Unfortunately, when I went [...]
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