Yearly Update?

Well it's been almost three years since we adopted Andrew, 6 years for Kayla and 10 years since Ethan was born.  We know we are an adoptive family but we just feel like us. We absolutely are in love with our children and the life God has given us. Since we embrace adoption openly and talk with our kids often it doesn't seem to be an overriding theme in their lives. It is simply the process in which God brought our family together. I encourage every parent to consider if God wants to build their family through adoption. The process, transition and blessing has been truly miraculous.

The kids are all doing great. Andrew is finishing 8th grade, Ethan 5th and Kayla is almost done with 1st grade.  Time does fly! They are all healthy, happy and overly loved. Our church continues to be an amazing adventure and we are so blessed to pastor.

I published a book a couple months ago...Hawksblade, available at Amazon.com.  I continue to teach full time and pastor full time as well.  Believe it or not we still have a massive amount of time together as a family.

I hope everyone understands what a blessing it has been to be adoptive parents. We feel exactly the same amount of love, care and everything from each of our kids and for each of our kids.  My friend was praying for me the other day and he prayed "what a blessing it was to watch our family love Andrew and Kayla like our own."  When it was my turn to pray I corrected his prayer and said, "we love them because the ARE our own." And we agreed together in the blessing of that statement. I was then reflecting on this idea and thought "What a beautiful reminder that in Jesus, God loves us because we ARE his own!"

I pray each of you are blessed as you experience the love of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 Zoo

That's where babies come from.

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