The Journey of a Family Striving to Live Dangerously Surrendered!


"Surrendering means that we have come to the end of our independence from him, our reliance on self-sufficiency, and our insistence that we don’t need him. Surrender to God changes everything! Why add the word dangerous to surrender? Because we don’t surrender to a benevolent but impotent grandfatherly figure; we surrender to Almighty God —the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. C. S. Lewis’s character Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia depicts God as a magnificent lion —good, but certainly not safe. Surrendering your life to God is the boldest and riskiest step you can take. Being dangerously surrendered to God allows you to know him in increasingly deeper ways and to participate fully in his will. " ~Kay Warren

Monday, March 10, 2008

Joshua Is At the Foster Home!!

Today is a day to DANCE! We got an email from our case worker that Joshua was moved from his orphanage to the CWA Foster Home! This puts us on the fast track! His second medicals will be done and then we will be waiting for a court date!!

We are sending pictures of our family to CWA today and they will mail them over to him. We are also sending a small care package to him with some friends traveling to pick up their children on the 18th of March. He will know who his family is and that makes a Momma's heart swell!

As quick as things seem to be moving, we may have to return to Ethiopia for Julianna. We are at peace with that. God is the one who called us to add her to our adoption late in the process. He knows what He is doing. Perhaps she was just born today! Our little wide-eyed Ethiopian Prince could easily be in our arms by early May! It's so exciting and overwhelming all at once. We have SO much to do to prepare and $10,000 to believe God for.

We are working on three fund raisers as we speak. We know God is the same God who provided the first $10,000. He will provide this second $10,000 and the funds for Julianna as well. We sure would save alot of money if we could pick up both kids at once, but God knows how He wants it to go.

Wednesday, all five of us go in for our shots. Kurt and I will get multiple shots for travel. The kids will start their Hepatitis A and B series. We will be sending in our original dossier to the courier in Washington DC hopefully on Wednesday. If not, we will have to wait until Monday. We will be leaving for Horn Creek Thursday morning. There is so much going on in our lives. It's at these times, I, (JoLynn) wonder why God didn't make me a good details person! I am blessed, however, to have precious detail people around me that help me.

Thank you for praying Joshua into the Foster Home quickly! Look at what your prayers are producing! Please now focus your prayers on the travel expenses, our referral for Julianna and God's will for her, and for all those practical, detail-like aspects we need to cover over the next two months.

Love you all! What an exciting God we have! Joshua's life is about to change forever!

Kurt and JoLynn

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