Thank you Steven Curtis Chapman

We applied for a grant through Steven Curtis Chapman's organization a while ago. Well, we probably won't get a grant, but we did get a little 14 day devotional. Wow! Who would have thought God would use this tiny adoption companion (as they call it) to move me forward in my faith. I wouldn't have thought that. I come from the line of thinking that we must spend this deep studious time in the word every day or else! Can we say legalism? Anyway, today's reading was titled "Revelation". Here is what it says:
"God has told us, His people, that pure religion that God the Father accepts is to go and look after orphans in their distress. Why? Because we, His church, are to announce what God, Almighty, is about to do for the world by representing him with our actions! That for which the world is now waiting, the prophecy yet to be revealed, is the return of Christ for his church. As Jesus said, 'I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you' (John 14:18). It's all abuot God's glory and plan...return to bring us home as members of His forever family."
YES YES YES! Can a sista get an Amen? That is what adoption is! In everything we do we are to be a picture of Christ. When I wipe away tears, send Jordan to time out, or just spend time holding her, I am Christ to her. I hope and pray that Scott and I will be an example and a challenge to First Presbyterian Church. Nothing would make me more happy than to see families in our Sunday school embrace adoption and run, not walk, to rescue some orphans for the Lord. Just so you all know, there are some people that I pray for by name, that their families would one day include adopted children. I won't say who you are, but don't be surprised if you feel some stirring in your spirit :)

Now, I must post this picture. Jordan has been drawing quite a few things lately. But to be honest, they all kind of look the same to me. She will draw a circle and call it a carrot or a cucumber. So today she came running down the hallway to exclaim that she had drawn an apple. Of course I went to check it out. Now you tell me, does this look like an apple or what? And look at how proud she is! When I first looked at the apple it didn't have the little circle in the middle and only had one stem. She started to maul the drawing before I got back with my camera. Thank God I got a picture the first time. I have had the hardest time trying to get her to look at the camera; I knew if I didn't get the shot the first time, it wasn't going to happen.
I think I can now say with all confidence that she is, in fact, the next Van Gogh.


We made cookies together last night. Well, Jordan made a mess out of my cookies. But she had fun and that is all that matters. Please ignore the hair and pajamas. It has been raining since Friday and yes, we have been in and out of pjs since then. No real clothes around here. Scott was sick yesterday so we didn't even get out of them for church. Anyway, here she is, complete with begging dog in the background. He knows who feeds him!