Run The Race

Reading: Romans 8:14-25 Prayer: Lord, help us to understand the terms of our adoption into Your family... may we receive freedom from any fears that are hindering us, and learn to boldly rely on You instead. Daily Challenge: If you are an heir to Christ, what do you inherit? Are there any words you need to express to Him? -----------------------------------------------------------       M ost of you know our story – Almost 3 months ago, we brought home our son whom we adopted from South Korea.   What an amazing, crazy adventure it was to go through the adoption process, and, WOW! what an experience it has been since bringing him home.   The first pictures we received of Hyun he was only 5 months old.   Once we signed the papers, he was 9 months old, and at that point we thought it would be 4-6months longer before we were able to bring him home.   Due to several changes in Korean law, that changed significantly – and it ended up being more tha...

It has been 3 months since my last post.  Oh how I've missed being here... For those who do not know me personally, I would like to provide a quick update on our life as of late.  After almost 3 years of being in the process to adopt our son, we were finally able to travel to South Korea this past June and bring him home!  I have for several years referred to him only as "HC" on this blog since we could not post any specific information about him. So, now, let me officially introduce our youngest son: Hyun Chae Oliver Wood Hyun just turned 3 years old.  His transition is going extremely well, and it is such a joy to see he and Reese together at last.  There is so much I could say about this boy, our trips, our family... but all I am going to say is "praise be to our Heavenly Father for so many answered prayers!". If you would like to see more about our trips to Korea or the boys, feel free to visit my family blog site which was private ...

Dear Mom: May 25th... Your birthday.  I'm never quite sure what to do with this day since you have passed from this life. I've missed you since the day you passed away, but I have had such a longing to share with you in our adoption journey.  Your heart was always for the child in need... I admired that about you.  While we traveled to Asia for our court hearing and to meet HC a few weeks ago - everything I saw reminded me of you.  You would have loved it there... the people, the history, the adventure of it all.  You would have insisted on hearing every detail of the trip.  We have so many people loving us through this adventure, but I know you would have been one of our greatest cheerleaders through it all.  I so miss not getting to share in this with you. A memory of you that has been standing out in my mind recently is when I was in 8th grade.  Both Briana and I were grounded (rightfully so, I'm sure), so I was grumpy and expected a bori...

Yesterday, someone asked me about when we made the decision to adopt, and what was the interaction like between my husband and me during that decision making process.  I was able to recount the vision God gave me but didn't necessarily give to Ron. God relates to Ron and I in very different ways; He is much more straight forward with me.  As crazy as it may seem, I have dreams, visions and hear words in my heart (which is very difficult to explain).  For Ron, it is much more of a gentle, quiet leading. It is sometimes difficult for me to share with Ron if God revealed something to me because it almost always means change for him even though he did not personally receive the direction.  I don't want Ron to feel forced into these changes... I want them to come from his heart so that he can have joy rather than bitterness. In the book of Judges, there is a story of a barren couple.  An angel of the Lord appeared to the wife sharing that they would have a son ...