sick

Please pray for Mya, She is feeling ill and just a bit home sick due to other interns having family there on the field. Another intern is very ill right now also and they are expecting four others with in the next few days.

Thanks.

;-( May the great physician heal them quickly!!!!

walking

Today is a fresh new day to walk. There has been a challenge laid before me and today is the day that an attempt to climb, crawl, walk, hop and even run through it that it is beginning.

The curly dark chestnut hair is pulled back in a ponytail, her t shirt, blue jeans and shoes are adorned. Ponders as she may, "What lies ahead? Will the past effect the present and the future? Is adventure in the wake? Will it be sojourned alone? How will it change me? If so, in what way? Can He be rediscovered in a vitality of realization, dream and FOCUS? Yes, like in the past of the time of stepping onto the crane lift, harness secured, safety ropes applied ready to leap. Adrenaline pumping, steps left untold of where it will lead. Let's begin this walk to be a discovery like no other!"

Walking. Hand in hand. Step by step. Here it goes, please don't leave but guide me, hold me, my life truly is encompassed in YOU, let's create the impossible with man, but not with YOU!

Ah Family

What lies ahead? Oh time to reflect has taken place all day, We ran into "Auntie Joan" when we were getting things together for camp, to be with some of our "FAMILY." Then after catching up on her children and their families; their visit with Beth just last weekend (yesterday returned), preparations to be with Brent and His bride, Kelsey to help them in their new relocation and their new season this weekend, and the prayer requests for Scot and his family and all the ER runs in the midst of everything for them. We stopped right there and had a prayer coverage for the Peace the Lord can grant to all of them recovery in health, safety in relocation and other requests in His will to be made clear. Like I said reflection with her brought many memories of our past with her family "The Irwin's" over the past twenty two years. AMAZING to be able to pray over her children and now their families like their family so often did for ours, all because we have become family.

Never take "family" God gives you for granted! Since ~ Summer 1988, we are changed; our lives wrapped forever in family ties through Christ. Because we became grafted into other families that became instrumental to our heart beat - literally and how sweet it is! To see Joan this morning enjoying simple pleasures like a smile, laughter, listening to her concerns, her excitement, and reflections - ahhhh JOY to the soul. I LOVE FAMILY that one becomes when connect to the Love of Jesus Christ! I really do. Because of that connection here is how the girls are enjoying the love of family around the world.

Mya, twenty two years later is beginning that new walk also of discovering "family". Interning in DR is sweet to see the connection to others who are becoming her family in Him. SWEET!!!

Tia, Laughing and enjoying "family" with friends this Memorial Day because of being grafted in also to the family of God.

Faith, Enjoying a picnic with a friend because they are with the body - "family"

Emily, laughing with a friend she led to Jesus who brought her mommy to Jesus later and they are with their "Family - small group".

Yes, "FAMILY" in Jesus is the sweetest thing every and they are part of our lives tapestry and we consider it wonderful to be among "FAMILY" who are One in the Spirit!

A week

Wow, what a week it has been! AMAZING! Arrivals, preparations, departures, thoughts, sleep, phone calls, messages, wondering all in the PEACE and JOY of Christ! He has kept this soul from trepidation and from becoming weak! All week has flown by so quickly! I just LOVE the thought of the gospel being lived out in the "daily" become one week.

A week belonging to the kingdom!

Rick B. says:

Rick gave a "There is VICTORY" in his status report. I am STILL asking for prayer coverages!