Memos

I don't have that many readers, so if you did not read A Place Called Simplicity, go read it now. I don't have a lot to add to that.

Also if you didn't read Fields of the Fatherless, go borrow or buy a copy and read it. We don't have any excuses to be sitting on our ummm...nice comfy chairs wondering what to do with our time.

 As to adoption, people say "well you just have something special, we couldn't do that" Let me tell you folks there ain't nothing special about us....in fact some days I'm shaking in my boots, 

some days I yell at my beautiful obedient children,

today I actually had sharp words with my husband. (That is unusual enough that it had everyone's attention)

 I am not always very patient or understanding, but thankfully God does not wait until people are perfect to give them a job to do. Otherwise, He would be waiting a long time. He simply is looking around for people to be willing to help out, yes, to step out of their comfort zone and He will do the rest.

Our story is by no means finished, it will be interesting how God unfolds our story. I don't plan on it being an easy journey, but it would be nice to be pleasantly surprised.

A quote from the Talmud, that I found in Fields of the Fatherless

A mother is likened unto a mountain spring that nourishes the tree

at its root, but one who mothers another's child  is likened unto a water that rises 

into a cloud and goes a long distance to nourish a lone tree in the desert.