- Our family eat most every meal together at the kitchen table.
- We can eat tropical fruit and drink juice made from fresh fruit every day.
- Our boys have never had to spend extended time away from home as MK's.
- We enjoy good the friendship of good missionary colleagues.
- My father and mother wholly support what we do and visit often, as well as my husband's mother.
- Our boys participate in our ministry in many ways.
- We have good general health.
- We live in a small town where the boys can safely go most anywhere at anytime.
- We have enough financial support to take care of most of our needs with few worries.
- We serve a mighty God who loves and cares for us every single day.
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. This verse has been a favorite of mine since I was a teenager. When I was a high school senior at a Christian school in Virginia, Job 23:10 was chosen as our class theme verse. At our graduation commencement, the valedictorian and saludatorian in their addresses that day divided the verse in its two natural parts as a basis for the core of each one's address. I was the salutatorian of my senior class that year. I chose to speak of how God would one day reward our faithfulness and thus, we should always strive to remain true. For many years though, the first part of the verse haunted me in a way. As a missionary especially when times were lonely or difficult, I assumed it was my "trial" or "test," and as such must be accepted in all humility. As I have grown older, I have begun to look more toward the pearly gates and have reconsidered the thr...
Getting somewhat caught up with my friends' blogs! Enjoyed reading through these recent ones. Trust you had a wonderful Christmas season and that this New Year is filled with continued blessings, big & small, from Him!
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