I am so thankful we serve a God who is intimate with us. Who knows us intimately--and whose love for us is unchanging. I am realizing I don't understand much about grace. About what it looks like to live in Christ's grace, nor about how to bring grace into my relationships with my kids and with others. I know and understand a lot more about rules. My prayer right now is that the Lord would teach me about grace. About what it looks like to live in his grace each moment....and what it looks like to bring grace into relationship with others.

I am in a spot where I am becoming increasingly aware of my complete and utter depravity. I am broken over it. I don't know what to do with myself. Maybe it takes coming face to face with your own depravity before you can really understand the grace of the Lord.

I am thankful that "he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion into the day of Christ Jesus (Phil. 1:6)."

I am thankful for this Lord who is willing to walk through this life with us. We serve an amazing God. A God who fully deserves all the honor, and glory, and praise. A God who I am compelled to worship and love.

I am finally settling back in. It has been a week of adjustment, but the Lord is teaching me through it- and I am thankful for that. My whole future still seems so uncertain, and it is easy to get caught up in the uncertainty of the unknown. The Lord keeps reminding me to trust in him. To trust him and be faithful to him right now where he has me. To abide in him and draw near to him during this time of transition and unknowns.

DanDire, one of our boys got hit by a motorcycle yesterday on the way to school. He broke his collar bone and is now in a "cast" of sorts for the next six weeks. I don't think the boda (motorcycle driver) even stopped to see if he was okay.

Anthony, the man in Masese that I was helping before I left for the states is doing amazing! I can't tell you how amazing he looks! His face has filled out, you can no longer see his ribs, and he is even getting a rounded stomach! It is amazing to see the Lord bring healing to his body!!! Thank you for your prayers for him! Continue praying for him that his body would continue to heal, and also that he would come to know the God that we know and love dearly.

I got to go to pick up the kids from school.....will write more later....