The Making of M.O.M.

Well, I tried to be sneaky but I'm sure most of you picked up on the lack of posts last week. We had a whirlwind week leaving last Thursday, the 4th, and spending 10 amazingly crazy days traveling through Washington D.C. then on to our final destination of Pearl River, New York. We spent five overwhelmingly full and blessed days at Africa Inland Mission meeting some God-fearing, Lord loving, wonderfully obedient families who blessed our socks off. (I've already found the blog of this family, if you'd like to follow their journey too. They are awesome and we connected with them right away. I'll try to post more links to the families we met as I find any blogs they may have.)

Our kids did PHENOMENAL. We had some rough spots, but all in all they were terrific. I'm still in shock and trying to process all we heard, did and saw.

Bottom line though, we've officially been appointed as members of Africa Inland Mission. Which means, we're officially MISSIONARIES!

Wow. God is good, I'm still in processing but I'm just so excited to see how the next year and a half will play out. We'd treasure your prayers as we continue to seek God's desires for our family as we pray and nail down exactly where in Africa the Lord desires for us to be. I'll give you more specifics and pictures soon. Have an awesome week y'all!

I feel like I owe you guys a deep apology.

While I was searching the "archives" for my last post, I came across this post. The sting of my words in this post made me hang my head in shame. Over the last several days, the Lord has convicted and gently spoken to me about the tone and the words of that post. And y'all, I'm just so very sorry.

While there is truth in that post, the curtness and the coldness with which I wrote was uncalled for an, truly, unacceptable.

Yes, I felt those things. But the Lord is showing me that just because I feel something, and even if it is a valid feeling, that doesn't give me the right to spew hatred and anger. While this post may not have offended you and though while my feelings and emotions were real the Lord is pressing me to rethink how I sounded. I feel very led to apologize publically, most specifically over my comments on Questions 3 & 4.

So I pray that you will accept any offense I may have given you all over this post. And maybe it didn't offend any of you and this is just another piece of humility pie the Lord is asking me to eat. He's been dealing with me deeply in the area of pride so I won't be surprised if that's the case. Either way, thank you all for receiving what I say here with a spirit of grace. Thank you for allowing me to be real, honest, blunt and open. Thank you for standing with us in prayer as we walk through difficult trials and as we've emerged stronger and more in tune with the will of God on the other side.

As we continue this journey that God has us on, I know that having you all at our side, praying for us, encouraging us and asking us tough questions will prove to be invaluable.

Thank you.