Dusting Off the Pages of Time...

     

 Yes, this is one very dusty blog....it seems in the past year and a half my fingers just can't seem to put into words what I feel...almost like I am in a slow moving fog (make that a fast moving fog)that I can't break out of.  It is busyness I suppose, coupled with intense moments of Joy, Sorrow, Peace, and much noise.  Noise of the very active young peeps that grace our hallways with their wonderful presence, extreme drama, and amazing insight!!

       There have been one or two to many goodbyes in this last 2 years since starting this blog. The inspiration that made me want to begin this blog began when we

had the blessed privilege of meeting our beautiful daughter Francesca from Haiti and having her live with us for two months in 2011 only to let her abruptly depart when we decided to adopt her to go back to Haiti to finish her adoption.  I think at that moment was when I truly realized just how big this old world is (yet how small in God's eyes) and how completely silly that we could somehow think that our little corner of it was even minutely important.   Now, two and one half years later, we still wait for her return with much anticipation. Hoping, praying and trusting daily our Lord to work out this good thing He began.

    Three months ago we said goodbye to a beautiful spirit of Grace that inhabited our lives for a lifetime and has left a void bigger than ever could have been imagined.  My sweet mother-in-love went to be with Jesus and so peacefully took her comforting spirit of joy and love and left in their place beautiful memories.  It reminded me that these goodbyes must be recorded somewhere, along with the memories,and the thoughts that mold us into who we are in our mundane lives or they may all together disappear.... and so here I set, fingers to keys...fighting the fog and asking God for the strength and grace to open my heart and write...?!

      Isn't that really what blogging is...a rambling of ones thoughts that have very little interest to anyone but the someones that are closest to us.  Oh, we may hit on a note or two of someone else's heart occasionally in the vast cyberspace we are a part of, but largely the only ones that really read the words to a blog are the ones closest(at least in heart)to our spirit and it is for them that I will continue to write....in all feebleness, humility and completely lacking all literary guild. In the words of Shane Claiborne, "Most good things have been said far to many times and just need to be lived!"  Bear with me, folks...I guess I am back and please, please all who read...comment good or bad and tell me your thoughts.  It is the way to true unity...communication and transparency! 

John 13:35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.