My little Elsie, in preparing for tomorrow's appointment, cover your tiny beautiful ears if you hear that you are called weak or lowly or sickly. YOU, my great treasure, are teaching people so very much about the Kingdom of God. I pray that you will LIVE on this earth to boast in the Lord because of his great great great love for you....
This photo represents how I'm feeling about my doctor's appointment on Wednesday. If you recall, it will be the first one since the Elsie appointment from hell. The big giraffe is Jesus, in my mind. Is it okay to compare Jesus to a giraffe? Too late. Because clearly that giraffe is un-phased and not even acknowledging the scary, hellish thing that the...
One of the best compliments I received when I was pregnant with Ellie (after I already knew) was when I was at work and a not-so-friendly employee looked at me in passing and said, "You smile way too much." They weren't joking and they probably expected me to shut off my smile and walk away swiftly. Instead, I said "Because of JESUS!" and...
It's been weird not updating about Elsie in terms of her physical state because of the fact that we haven't been back to the doctor--but MAN is it refreshing. (Although not super helpful for those of you who like solid medical updates.) One good thing (?) about having already been through this (eek) is that I feel very confident and not in the...
In my walk with God, I have been fortunate enough to serve in places where physical, tangible miracles have taken place and I have witnessed them first hand. This caused me, early on, to make some decisions about my belief system as well as be faced with the task of wrestling with the very different looking, non-miracle affirming church that largely is the...
I want so badly to believe it's fall except it's not quite there yet and the humidity in Charleston is at four hundred percent so even on a nice 80 degree day it feels like the inside of a volcano. (My obsessive love for the ocean makes it all worth it.) But that will never stop me from loading up on pumpkin and...
"If sickness, death, and paralysis were all to be accepted as the perfect will of God, then the work of Jesus in dealing with the sick would have to be accepted [by us] as an active opposition to the will of the Father. However, we know that Jesus neither did nor said a single thing that was not in accordance with the will...
Chris and I escaped to California for a much needed getaway and also to visit a church that we love called Bethel. Many of you may be familiar with the place, but for those that are not, all you need to know is that it is comprised of an amazing body of believers. We stream their sermons and worship just about every week...
We're back from our runaway trip to California and we had a blast. I haven't written in a while and plan to write about what we did there as soon as I'm able to process it all :) Elsie must have loved that the time zone was different, that the humidity was next to nothing (compared to here), that we ate really good...
Something has been pressing on my heart lately and usually that means I am going to end up writing about it. Yet again, this is one of those posts that I was hesitant about..but after countless sleepless hours tossing and turning over it I finally decided to let it work it's way out of my head. It's about God's will. And I'm just...
