In the style of Uncle Sam Wants You posters, God wants to join his army. Fortunately, God respects our free will and will never force you to do anything. But if you make yourself available, God is eager to use you for his purposes. And just like Uncle Sam, he doesn’t send you into battle unprepared. God gives us the Holy Spirit… (more…)
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Trust in God, not the World
Over the last few years I’ve been mentally compiling some verses that speak to me about trusting in God, not the world for the things I need, for love, or for affirmation of who I am or what my value is. If you put any hope in the world you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment, discontent, and unneeded stress. … (more…)
Love is a Choice, not an Emotion
Love – Ah, the first characteristic of the fruit of the spirit. What is my capacity to love God, myself, my children, my husband, my friends, . . . people I don’t get along with, people who don’t like me. A while back, we studied the 5 love languages. I believe it was written by a Christian author, but for… (more…)
Our Foster Care Future
It’s time for our yearly renewal of our foster care lisence. Along with running around for physicals, finding things I need copies of, making sure we’ve taken our continuing ed classes, and filling out forms, we have to decide what our plan is for next year so we can be sure our lisence covers it. Most people are aware that… (more…)
Beware: Proud Parent Post
Hannah has been amazing us lately. She is so smart and soaks up everything we say or do and repeats things back to us with her great memory days later. Some of her latest accomplishments: Art Projects This is probably mostly credited to our new nanny trying to think up fun things for the kids to do. She and I… (more…)
Happy 11 Months Benjamin!
See more recent pics of Benjamin here.
Pumpkin Patch!
Check out the rest of the Pumpkin Patch pictures here.
Baptism Testimony
Some of you may know that on July 4th I was rebaptized. I’ve been waiting for the Lord to tell me when was the right time to make this public in a blog post. I haven’t been keeping it a secret, but I haven’t blogged about it yet because for some people the idea of rebaptizing might be offensive. I think the Lord is prompting me… (more…)
Pushing
He won’t walk with the walking toys, but he is really loving pushing the kitchen stools and the kitchen chairs around. If only I could get him to sweep as well.
The Moehrings
- Nate, Rebecca, Hannah, and Benjamin
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