One month ago, our prayers for resolution were fulfilled. Our meek, “your will” prayers, our gentle guidance prayers, our big bold, “I know you will” prayers, our desperate pleas, our prayers from and with so many people in our life, even from those we don’t know…there were prayers interceding before the Lord for us, and... Continue Reading →
Our home is a canvas. A painting I know God will be brushing strokes of color, shades, and textures onto right up until we leave this earth. Foster care is beautifully messy splodge on the canvas of our life. Abstract? Perhaps. It's interpretation however is certainly in the eye of the one beholding it. The... Continue Reading →
30-Year-Old White Evangelical Heterosexual Male The news and maybe a vaccine card will tell you that’s my identity…it’s not entirely. My identity is first a child. We all are at one point, right? Helplessly dependent on the care of another. Of course, I’m not biologically, socially, mentally a child any longer. I just turned... Continue Reading →
There is something both mysterious and beautiful about beginnings. They're a definitive moment where something that was not — simply is. Whether it's the turning breezes of a new season, the opening of a perfectly wrapped birthday gift or the dramatic opening scenes of tilted yellow text slowly scrolling and then drifting into the galaxy... Continue Reading →
If you talk to any home constructor, they'll tell you a home is only as good as it's the foundation. If you talk to a real estate investor, they too will tell you that location is key. Any inspector's top box on their checklist is to ensure the house has a solid foundation. Needless to... Continue Reading →
If you happen to know a bit about hockey, you understand that a power play is a particular time of advantage. One team has committed a penalty and as a consequence has one or more fewer players on the ice. The other team rallies their best offensive players and plays to optimize the advantage to... Continue Reading →
I'd like to introduce a theme the Lord has given and reemphasized to me over the past five years: Burning Burdens. At first pass, it may sound destructive or perhaps even heavy, ill-fitting, or a nuisance in view of today's fast paced life. Please hear me out:By Burning I suggest passion, excitement, zeal.By Burden I... Continue Reading →
Father, I love the beauty of storm and the meetings they carry. The thunder rumbling depth through airy clouds. The lightning cracking silhouettes across the darkened skies. The blows and shifts of the wind; the mystery of its origin and strength. Trees, branches, leaves; rustling, swaying, bending. The drips then drops of rain. The power... Continue Reading →
The Lord had this hallway highlight hanging in our home and hearts many many weeks ago. In ancient times, particularly in dry thirsty terrain, wells were bedrocks for a community. They were a literal reservoir of life. A place to desperately throw your empty bucket and gratefully draw up the refreshment of water. Here’s the... Continue Reading →
Easter 2020 Thank you again for taking the time to hear our story. So far we've talked about why chose to foster, what placement of our first child looked like, facing fears and entering into the unknown, and some of the lesson’s we’ve learned as parents in the world of foster parenting. Today we plan... Continue Reading →
Our Foster Care AnnouncementNiagara Falls, ON Thank you all for tuning in last week to hear about our “why” of foster care. Today we are going over the next piece in our timeline that brought us our first placement of a child, and many new experiences that unraveled through that. To recap, we were licensed... Continue Reading →
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