Summer ramblings

We have been doing a lot of traveling this summer.  A lot of packing, driving/flying, unpacking, washing lots of laundry, then repeat.  It's been fun doing things and seeing people we don't do as often.  It's also getting a little tiresome, as staying around H-town for the next couple months sounds very appealing.  Though both Justin and I were getting spoiled having Daddy around all the time.

We are about halfway through our adoption classes.  The only ones we have left are all day Saturday classes.  Due to the exciting (yawn) amount of information we keep getting, Derek wants us to take turns and not spend the entire month of weekends in a classroom with no breaks.  So it may take a couple more months to finish but we are not worried.

My cousin, Grant, is starting to eat solids and move around the hospital in Ft. Worth.  We are still praying that his liver stops draining so the tubes can be removed and he can come to Houston for rehab.  His sister gets married in almost a month, so it would be nice for the whole family to be in one place again.  Thank you for all your prayers and checking in with me.  May the Lord be glorified through my family.

The blog will slowly catch itself up.  Hopefully by Christmas I will have finished summer.  :-)  We had something every single week/weekend for three months straight.  Makes for 1000s of photos, an editing system that has been quirky lately, and not a lot of energy left to be on the computer.

The verse I have been memorizing the past week is Acts 4:29-30.  "Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.  Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders trough the name of your holy servant Jesus." (emphasis mine)

We had Peter Swann sub for our Sunday school class and he talked about how he prays these verses for his family everyday.  Sure enough the first day I started memorizing this was in Chicago over Labor Day for a family wedding.  I was walking and bumped into a neighbor who said something in passing.  I smiled, but then I got the familiar sensation when I can feel the Spirit leading me to do something.   I went back, made friends, and eventually told her why I came back along with the scripture to speak boldly to her.  I told he that the Lord loved her enough to show His goodness through something like a stranger walking by.  We saw each other the next day and continued the conversation.  She didn't agree with me, but she listened.  Oh Lord, open her eyes.

On the flight home we got our tickets split up.  Derek made a passing comment and I smiled and joked that maybe I was supposed to witness to somebody.  Sure enough, I was sitting next to someone who didn't buy into the gospel and a Jew.  Ha!  Sense of humor, Lord.  We chatted theology, morality, and most importantly the cross.

I challenge you to pray that prayer and see who the Lord leads your way.  I do a prayer journal daily and anyone I talk to I ask how I can pray for them.  Sometimes they balk and I reply that if their life is perfect then that's fine.  They then smile and say of course not.   But I need something to pray for.  At Marshall's today another cash register employee came over and asked if I could pray for her as well.  So many widows out there.  So many people hurting.  We need to be the hands and feet of Jesus.

 This nice pilot let Justin get in the cockpit.  He was also a believer from Houston. 

Justin and I have gotten tickled singing the belly button song from Veggie Tales (on the Little Joe video, JT's personal fave).  I start in on the rap and say Belly Button.  And then Justin reply, "Uh, Huh".  It's funny to us.  We did it all after lunch today.  We might try to make a video.

Justin told me he liked my hair yesterday I got it highlighted.  He told me it made me look bigger.  Awesome.

Justin is five and now upgraded to a much bigger bike.  A hand-me-down thanks to the Rasplickas.  It's a mountain/dirt bike and he looks so big boy in it. 

He has asked me every day this week when we are going to adopt kids.  And can we adopt 5 so we can have 6 kids like the Browns.

Can't think of anything else to ramble about.  Off to continue pushing through June with the posts.