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We Could Have Missed This

A little over two years ago we resigned as associate pastors as we pursued the next “job” that God had for us: missionaries to Mexico.   K-man reunited with his bio family and a week later we left for a month of training in Missouri. Our goal was to have our budget to leave for Mexico raised in a year, so we closed the door to fostercare.   It didn’t fit in our timeline.   We had always been open to private adoption, but the expenses of that were too great with the daunting assignment of raising money for Mexico as well.   So, we surrendered our hopes of starting a family anytime soon. However, we decided to call our case worker and let them know that we wanted to stay in the system for a “miracle adoption”... an adoption where both parents had surrendered rights and we would be able to adopt before we left.   We told them that we didn’t expect for this to happen but just wanted to leave our hat in the ring, so to speak.   Being that we had moved to a new apartment

The Not So Safe King

Susan: “Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion" "Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe.  But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.” A little over one year ago I finally went skydiving.   It was pretty much the only thing on my bucket list, and it’s been on there for as long as I could remember.   I finally “had the chance" (as in I made it happen) while Noah and I celebrated our 5 th anniversary.   I’ve always loved that feeling of adrenaline and couldn’t imagine a better way of experiencing that than hopping out of a plane at a crusing altitude of 10,000 feet.   As we boarded the plane that could BARELY fit Noah, me, our 2 tandem jumpers and the pilot, the fear grew with the height of the rising aircraft.   My fear became mangled with giddy laughs and excitement as the plane crept higher and higher… soon my fear dissolved like the land below as I rea