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, November 4, 2008

Got six new pictures of Julianna today. Isn't she a beauty?
We have our tickets and hotel on hold, leaving December 6th. Please pray with us as we raise our final travel expenses. We are still about $8000 short.

The realization that in just over a month, we will be face to face with these children is hitting us now. We are overwhelmed with love and anticipation. We know the transition could be difficult for them, but God has given us such a passion for them, we know we will be able to walk through their grief and loss and teach them to bond with us. We are so excited about staying at the Ethiopian Guest Home. It is a guest house specifically for adopting parents with suites made to fit your need. After the Tuesday embassy date, we will just be hanging out at the guest house all day and night, bonding with our new children. It will be a time we look back on as precious and pivotal, no doubt.

The outpouring of love and support for our family and these children is humbling. What an awesome community and church they are coming home to...a group of people who have
loved them for months and months and given so they can
come home. We are touched.


Thank you for continuing to pray for Joshua and Julianna.
Christmas will be so sweet this year!

Kurt and JoLynn

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