Stinking Hilarious!

They may be living halfway across the country from each other...but that doesn't keep Macy and her friend Raegan from playing together! They have Skyped (video conferencing) with each other several times and it is STINKING HILARIOUS!

They will both get their newest toys and show each other on the cameras.....make faces at each other.... and the best yet - dress up and play like they are Batman and Friends! One night I was cooking dinner while they were talking - and I walked over to see what Raegan was doing (didn't hear anything....unusual....) and she had her eyes closed with her tongue hanging out.... I said, "Raegan, WHAT are you doing?" To which she opened her eyes briefly and said "Ms. Glenda, I am playing dead!" Then she returned to her "playing dead" state. I laughed until it hurt!

Missionary boot camp...

I had made the comment a few days ago that the last 6 months of our lives has been like missionary boot camp.... "Despair. Anxiety. Stress. Uncertainty. Confusion. Feeling...Lost. Waiting. Searching."

As I have thought on that throughout today....it is so complex to try and explain.

We have experienced a time of such uncertainty. Of such lostness. Of such fear. Of not knowing how we were going to pay the rent... Of not knowing "where" we were going... Of literally "feeling" the darkness trying to strangle us...

Yet - in comparison to what so many other people are facing....it seems shallow to even compare our experience as a "boot camp" of sorts. We are not starving. We do not have parasites. We are not being tortured. We are not turned out on the street.

I have been reading, "The Heavenly Man" by Chinese Christian Brother Yun. I have not paid the price that these people have. A very challenging read..

No words needed...

Washington Monument Part 2

Washington Monument

We took the girls up in the Washington Monument last week. We have driven past it countless times - but not actually taken the girls up in it yet.

A few months ago Mia started saying, "Washinging Monumen" .... "PUSH IT DOWN!" Hilarious! I mean EVERY time we would drive past it - she would shout this from the backseat! It must have looked like a big toy tower to her or something! So we had her give it a try!

March Update

>Light at the end of the tunnel. Turning a new page. Rounding a corner. A spark of new life felt within.

All terms we have used in conversations this month to describe what we are feeling.

It is as if the first 6 months of this DC journey have served as a kind of missionary boot camp. Despair. Anxiety. Stress. Uncertainty. Confusion. Feeling...Lost. Waiting. Searching.

It has certainly been an interesting season in our lives.

A visual I had today as I was praying ...."It is like God has grabbed us up and has His hands over our eyes – taking us to a “surprise”…yet we have been fighting and kicking all the way b/c we want to “SEE”! Now we are resting in His embrace…..just waiting to see what He has for us."

I still don’t like not being able to “see” as we wait….but that is part of the journey! I know I will look back at some point and thank God for every scrap of uncertainty we have felt these last 6 months.

On March 4th - Brad and I both "felt" something in our spirits. We felt that "spark" of life....that change was coming...that we were rounding a corner to this season in our lives.... Only later did we realize that March 4 marks 6 months to the day that we moved to DC. Maybe coincidence. Maybe significant. The first half of this year is over with. And we are eagerly looking forward to what God has before us...

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Also, the house in DC was rented out on Tuesday, March 3. Thank God for answering this prayer! Our small group prayed specifically with us about this on March 1st. Thank you ALL for praying. God has answered this pressing neeed! Our lease is now resolved!
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Since I have been so late in posting our update this month - I hope to have a snippet a day posted for the rest of the month! March Madness!

Media Masters

When we decided we wanted to spend a year in DC with NCC - the main reason was so that Brad could really dive into all things video ministry.



What we didn't know was that not only does NCC have THE MOST amazing media team on staff anywhere- but that these guys are beyond AMAZING. Truly BRILLIANT TECHIE MASTERMINDS! They even have their own websites.... http://www.daveclark.com/ http://www.davidrussell.org/ Check it out and you will see what I mean! Geez!



My head feels like it might fall off after listening to them sometimes. I don't think Brad and I are wired for that level of media ministry....it is like being at the deepest part of the ocean in the techie world! We are just snorkeling from the video boat! :)