Run The Race

By those who love God and by those who despise God, He is often seen as a "rule maker".  Prior to giving my life to Him, I envisioned Him as an insensitive rule maker, and early in my Christian walk I spent much time trying to follow as many of the "rules" as possible in order to make up for all the wrong I had previously done. Now, 15 years after walking with the Lord, I see Him in a very different light.  I no longer see Him as "rule maker" but instead as "creator".  The analogy I often consider is this... If the person who invented the lighter wrote an instruction book, it may say, "Use the lighter in this way, but WARNING! do not bring it in contact with your hair!"  Would we think to ourselves, "That person is so mean to tell me I can't use this for my hair!  Nobody is going to tell me what to do!"? If one did use the lighter for their hair, destruction and a horrible stink would certainly follow.  The "cre...

I have mentioned in some previous posts that we have been pursuing adoption.  On April 15th, we received a very exciting phone call - the agency had an adoption referral for us!  They sent us all the information on the child, and after a few questions back and forth, review of all the information - just last week we humbly accepted the privilege to be this child's family. So, today, we would like to pass on some of our joy by introducing our (drum roll please) .............. BOY!!!! For his privacy, we agreed not to post his name or pics on-line.  But I will share some news about him... we'll call him HC.  HC is 9 months old, and is sooo cute.  He has crazy hair that sticks straight into the air.  His cheeks are so chubby; they just scream "please smooch me!".  HC was placed with a loving foster family at 5 months old and is still with them today (praise God for this family!). Reese is super excited to be getting another brother.   ...