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

Thursday, December 4, 2008

It's Here!

34 years in the waiting... from a little girl in Sunday school peering deep into the faces of three hungry children on a take-home paper and hearing in my spirit "Africa, Africa" to this moment....on the very verge of our trip to Ethiopia to adopt our two new children. This journey has been absolutely life altering in so many ways, but if there is one theme that resonates throughout it all it is this.... GOD IS NEVER SLOW IN KEEPING HIS PROMISES! God spoke to my young, tender heart, "Africa" at three years old. I thought after Bible College I would be a missionary to Africa, but God's plans were more intricate than mine. We aren't going to Africa as missionaries at this time in our lives (although that thought does not seem at all out of the question), but instead God is bringing Africa to us! Our lives are being kissed with two beautiful souls, deepening the wells of our blessing! It is beautiful to see. The unveiling of all God has spoken in our lives...for me since age three, for Kurt since we dated and even more intense since August of 07...all His words coming to pass...He never speaks something He doesn't follow through on! What a God we have!

Thank you for praying for us. We will try to blog in Ethiopia and post pictures. Life will never, ever be the same!

We love you!
Kurt and JoLynn
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