Time to Confess...

Thank you so much to all of you involved with and following this amazing journey the Lord is leading us on!  You are amazing and so precious to us.  I know this for sure...this would NOT be possible without God's people!  THANK YOU!!!

So I am FINALLY doing this blog thing.  Those of you that know me well have heard me say over the past year (seriously), "I'm really wanting to start my blog soon."  Well, it's not so soon, since it took longer than a year, but I AM finally beginning.  The truth is that there is a part of me that has resisted this and for a variety of reasons.  I feel that the facebook and blog world (which can both be such good things) often have us all portraying only the really good things about our families...you know only what we want people to see.  While I am a HUGE fan of positivity, it's not the whole picture, and I often fall into the comparison trap...the comparing myself to others instead of Jesus.  I am just so easily entangled into the comparison thing.  For this reason, I limit so much of my time doing these things. 

However, I have felt prompted by the Lord to do this.  Some reasons....1. To update those of you that are wanting updates 2. To document the amazing way the Lord carries us through this 3. To look back on this and see God's hands all over it!  4. To share with our precious child just how many mountains God moved to get them here. 5. To glorify our MIGHTY Savior.  6. To create awareness.  We are NOT at all saying that all Americans or Christians should embark upon the adoption journey.  We ARE saying that you should care about what God does...and that includes a variety of areas. 

There are so many important and amazing things going on with all of you and this is not at all more important than any of those things.  We have been so encouraged by so many of YOU and your faithfulness and obedience to the Lord.  I am not assuming there will be any huge following...all I know is that I am supposed to write it and let God take care of the rest. The truth is, I'm not a blogger, and I really don't follow blogs all that much.  I truly have no idea what I'm doing, so your patience is appreciated :)  I have so many things I want to add to this blog...music, videos, and more but I just don't know how to do it yet :)  We'll get there!

Bottom line...I don't want to portray a perfect family picture.  I'm not a fan of fake, and boy would that be fake if I portrayed our family that way.  We are fallen, broken, normal people...unable to do nothing remotely good without Him...striving after Christ and completely not doing that perfectly.  For those of you that know us well, you are very aware of this :)  That's for sure.  If I'm honest, there's a little fear of putting all of this out there.  It's raw, and it's real.  There are so many places this journey will take us that I've never been with the Lord.  It's a risk...and even to my own surprise, when I really thought about my hesitations, I discovered that the really tough things I like to keep "in house."  You know that stuff that I might lose it on if I talk about it in front of people...the raw stuff.  My heart is that we're honest and that God is glorified through this.  That it's HIS name and not our own that is lifted high!  Oh, how I pray that I won't get in the way of this blog thing...that I will get OUT of the way and that you'll truly see our precious Jesus through this.