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

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Sending Gifts!

We have made precious friends in this adoption process. One family is leaving for Ethiopia to get their two small daughters this Friday. They emailed that they will take a small package for Joshua from us. So, today we are putting together a small photo album, buying a baseball hat, a t-shirt and a small stuff animal and overnighting it to her so she can give it to him in Ethiopia. We are so excited! She will hopefully get a picture of him as well. We feel much more connected to our son now that we can send things to him. It is very exciting!

We have heard that we can delay travel to wait for Julianna. If it doesn't make Joshua wait too long, we are praying about doing that if we have to. We are just believing God is going to work it all out just in time anyway. To leave her behind would be heart breaking.

Thank you for praying for our referral, for our finances of $20,000, for our children's court dates, for our upcoming fund raisers, and for our children's health and safety until we get them home.

Blessings to all of you!!

Kurt and JoLynn
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