Devin

Last night we went and met a little one year old boy named Devin. He needs a home.
His birth mother is a drug addict, and we don't know who the birth father is. He is currently living with his grandparetns who are in their 70's and in failing health. Pray for us. I think this might be our son.

why not

It is the beginning of October - so why not post a blog at my seemingly bi-annual blog. The kids start basketball this week - so they are both excited. Chance actually started 2 weeks ago. The varsity coach called him and told him to come do conditioning w/ the varsity for two weeks. Chance was super excited, and held his own with the big boys. He'll be up there soon enough. Reagan moves up to 12 and under this year, so she is the youngster again.
We finally got our home study finished, and are now moving to the next phase in the adoption process. THe home study, and all of the requisite paperwork took over 4 months to complete. We are hopeful that we have done our share of waiting, and that this next step will move faster....we'll see.

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Chance is 14!

Chance turned 14 last week. These past few days I have been watching him. I am amazed, how did this happen? I remember holding him moments after he was born. I remember looking into his eyes when he was only hours old - We just stared at each other for hours that night. I clearly remember when he was only a few weeks old he had to go to the hospital with RSV, and the nurse couldn't get an iv into him: he screamed in pain for what seemed like an eternity, and I was helpless. he cried until his little voice was gone, and he looked up to me with his little eyes - oh man that was the WORST night ever!
I can still hear his little voice as he said grown up words. He never talked like a baby. He would wow total strangers with his grown up vocabulary at the age of 1 1/2 and 2.
When he was 5 and we found two stray bloodhounds. They were beautiful dogs, but to big for us to keep in the house we lived in at the time. Chance wept when the animal control truck took the dogs away - "It's not fair! they get two dogs and we don't have any!" I remember his joy a few weeks later when we went to a shelter and he got to choose our dog - Sally is still our dog.

I remember his fear of the zip line at family camp. He stood on the platform for an hour, to scared to step off. I remember my pride, when he conquered that fear and stepped off the platform, rode the zip line, and dropped into the water. His smile when he broke the surface of the water still warms my heart.

His heart was broken when we watched the movie "Hotel Rwanda" - he went to his room and cried. He was 11 years old, and he wept for the hurt and afflicted.

We went on a mission trip together this summer. I watched in amazement as he worked with kids that have real needs, and real problems. He had fun with kids that don't get to have alot of fun, and he told those kids about Jesus. The picture at the top of this blog is of him with one of those kids.

Saturday we went to Reagan's basketball game, and Chance was standing at the end of the gym with a friend. I watched as a young lady (2 years older than him) removed herself from a conversation with her peers (that was taking place in the row of bleachers right in front of me) and walked across a crowded gym to talk with Chance. I watched Chance interact with this young lady. I'm thinking to myself "what if that is my future daughter-in-law?" I don't like to admit it, but that time is coming.

I know that I only have a few more years with Chance as mine. I know that he is nearly a man. I am so thankful that the Lord trusted me with this treasure. This young man is destined for greatness! He is going to be a great man, husband, father...whatever he does, he is going to be great!
Thank You Lord for Chance, for the past 14 years, and for all the years yet to come.

God is at work

God is working! We have been praying some pretty specific prayers - and God is answering those prayers. It is really cool! We're still not sure if everything is going to totally fall into place, but it is exciting right now!

Fall is finally here

It is finally cool here in Oklahoma... that may not seem post worthy - but to a guy who's car has no air conditioner....that is HUGE! Actually only 1 car has no a/c, our other car is brand spanking new. We bought a VW Jetta last week. We traded in the truck because we were spending an inapropriate percentage of our income on gas - and that is with me riding the motorcycle alot over the past few months. So, we have new wheels - so that's fun. The NCAA volleyball season is wrapping up, so I only have a couple of weeks of madness left - then things will slow down a little.

God has been so good to us.....no specific reason for saying that, other than the fact that He has.
I don't want to be one of those people that say "God is important to me" but then I never talk about Him.....so then you are left thinking, "this really isn't that important to him, because he never talks about it." I know a guy that says he loves Jesus, but all he ever talks about, and I mean it, all I ever hear him talking about, is something else. Every time I see this guy, he's telling me about his newest thing in this one area. So, I wonder to myself, is God as important to him as this is? Because he never talks about God. Don't we want to talk about what is important to us? I think we do.
WOW! Where did that rant come from? Oh well - it felt good.