37 Weeks!

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After months of  teetering on the edge of bed rest and medication, we made it to 37 weeks with just a few days of bed rest and no medication! Praise the Lord! It is only by His grace and hand on this pregnancy that we made it. We know that MANY people have been praying through this pregnancy with us and we are so very, very thankful for all those prayers. Little “Acorn” is doing well and we’re so excited to get to meet him or her in just a few short weeks.  And we’re excited to find out if we have another boy or we enter the territory of hair bows and fluffy dresses with a girl.  I personally feel like we’ll be announcing another boy.  My intuition was right with Samuel, so we’ll see if it’s right this time around.  God is so good to have blessed us with another child and to have brought us this far. Now the REAL adventure begins when we’re parenting two…

Giveaway!

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We have cloth diapered Samuel since he was just days old.  We REALLY like cloth diapers!!! And soon we will be diapering two! I want to change my detergent and asked several of my cloth diapering friends what they use. One of my friends not only gave me a great suggestion, but she has a giveaway for the detergent on her blog! I’m entering as often as possible so I can hopefully win some free detergent.  Here’s the link to her blog in case you’re interested: Jessie’s Ramblings.  The giveaway is for Rockin’ Green laundry detergent. I hadn’t heard of it until today, but two of my friends have recommended it so far. They even make samples sizes so you can find which formula and scent works best for you. So cool!

A Whole Different Life

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So, obviously living in Singapore and serving as missionaries will be a completely different life for us, but there are new things that I realize all the time will be different for us.  We hear about turmoil in other countries and about political instability, but in general it doesn’t really affect us.  It will when we move.  A couple guys from our team were supposed to go to Nepal earlier this month to install a radio station, but because of impending transportation strikes that essentially shut down the country, they couldn’t go.  The strikes lasted for a week and I read a quote from a woman who said she was just happy that the strike was over because it meant new food was coming into the market. She and her family had been living off potatoes that whole week because they didn’t have access to any other food with the strike.

We’ve been reading stories about the conflict in Thailand that could escalate to a civil war.  I can’t imagine how the Thai people feel on either side of the conflict.  People are being injured and killed in this conflict that is playing out right in Bangkok. I can’t imagine a conflict in our country that got to the point the army was putting up “Live Firing Zone” signs in Washington, D.C., because they were in a position to fire on protesters if they deemed it necessary.

Political instability in the Asia-Pacific region is unfortunately part of life, especially the countries where we are currently doing a majority of our work.  It affects the work HCJB Global is doing, but much, much more importantly it affects the daily lives of the people in these countries.  So much of life for them is unstable because of the political climate or poverty or natural disasters. It makes me want the people there to know about Jesus even more-to know the never-changing, always present God who loves them.

The Reward

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I mentioned about a month ago that I’ve been going through a prayer devotional book called Prayers for the Faithful.  Each week has the same verse everyday for praise and worship.  This week the verse is Genesis 15:1, which says “I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”  As I meditated on that small piece of scripture today, God laid on my heart that my reward is HIM.  He is my exceedingly great reward.  My obedience to following through in what He calls me to and the subsequent closer relationship I have with Him as a result is my reward.  We do indeed reap what we sow.  When my sowing is obedience to Him, I reap the great reward of a closer relationship with Him.  Yes, there are other things I would definitely like to be reaping out of the work I’ve done in the past 10 months of raising support.  And the time will come when we do reap the benefits of all the work we’ve done. But for the moment, when I don’t know when or how we will see the harvest from all that work, I will treasure the closer relationship I have with my heavenly Father and praise Him for continually growing me, stretching me, and molding me.