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Remembering Mandy Kelly from Worshipful Living

Tuesday, March 21, started like any other day around our house. I got the kids off to school and came home to do some work.  Around 9:30 a member of our Facebook Mastermind Group (a group of about 10 Christian women bloggers that support one another through blogging and life) posted that she'd seen some chatter on Mandy's Facebook profile and wanted to see how we could pray for her.  It wasn't 20 minutes later that we all realized what was going on... Mandy, her husband Scott, and their … {Read More}

Homestudy…

....APPROVED!!!!We received an email this morning saying that confirmation of approval of our homestudy was received yesterday! I am so thankful that this part of the process is over!! Now we are ready to see little faces in our inbox, pray over them, and bring our child home!Thanks so much for your prayers during this time! God's working even when we don't see it!P.S.The homestudy still has to … {Read More}

Teen Talk Tuesday – Modesty

My post for October is up on Jill's blog this morning. I hope that all of you will take time to read what God's word says about modesty (our topic for October). I believe this is something that women (and men!) of all ages struggle with, not just teens. Prayerfully, I'll be posting some good homestudy news sometime this week!!! … {Read More}

Sanctity of Life

On this Sanctity of Life Sunday I asked God why!**Disclaimer**Don't do this at home! Asking God why won't change his will nor his glory. I only ventured to do so for the sake of this blog post!"God, why are women who don't value life, getting pregnant and aborting children?"If only these women could walk a day in the shoes of a woman struggling with infertility, oh how I believe their hearts would … {Read More}

Where’s Our Homestudy (Take 2)

Cue laughter to keep from pulling my hair out!Our homestudy was submitted to the agencies committee this Wednesday (for the second time...long story). I emailed our social worker yesterday morning to see if she had heard whether we passed...this time! She said she hadn't heard but should know something by the end of the day, or at the latest, by today.Guess what!? I haven't heard from her … {Read More}

Go Again

This was sent to me this morning from an awesome friend.She said she was reading out of her Spurgeon devotional last night and he was using 1 Kings 18: 43."And he said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." And he went up and looked and said, "There is nothing." And he said, "Go again," seven times."The devotional that followed is below:"Although you may have pleaded month after month … {Read More}