An Ocean of Lessons

August 24, 2016

I have been meaning to blog for a couple of weeks now. Life has been, well, life. Busy. Hard. Fun. Sorrowful. Sweet. I am sure you can relate. Through it all, the Father has been patiently teaching my heart. He, after all, is very kind. Recently, we have, from afar, […]

Duty or Delight?

June 19, 2016

We have now spent about 3 years in full-time preparation mode for living our lives overseas (and several more even before that). With our hopeful departure date less than 7 weeks away, you can imagine we are pretty busy. We have most of our luggage, we are beginning to hoe through our belongings, and we […]

Our Brave Little Man (part 2) and Our Great Big God

July 31, 2015

From the Beginning Back at the end of April Gideon had his first appointment at UVA Children’s Hospital. You can read more about his first visit here. At that visit we found out that Gideon would need to have his right kidney removed as well as a procedure done on his bladder to ensure that […]

Our Brave Little Man

April 28, 2015

This past Monday Gideon had an appointment at the Children’s Hospital at the University of Virginia (UVA). Let me back up a little bit…when we moved back to Virginia in January I had an ultrasound at around 35 weeks. During the ultrasound we found two somewhat alarming things. The first was that we were having […]

God Knows Exactly What We Need

March 16, 2015

I remember clearly the day we came to meet the Ratliff’s. In my mind it seemed like a terrible first meeting. Basically, just picture two bulls running through a gift shop . While Chandler talked to Mitch and Betty about who we are and the ministry God has called our family to, I tried to wrangle in the little bulls. […]