Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Merry Christmas to all of you. I wanted to tell you that we have a new blog page. You can find it at awillingspirit. It is a work in progress and I am just learning to edit it and add pics and other content so please be patient and check up with us from time to time. Thursday, November 25, 2010.

A quick glance at my most recent posts on my blog reminds me that only having posted one blog in 2011, one in 2012 and this being the first post for this year of 2013 I have not been eager to share many words.

Thoughts and stories from my journey into the Kingdom. Working hard at finishing out our time in Togo strongly, starting to try to piece together our future lives in the US and trying to stick faithfully to renewed spiritual and physical exercise regimens has left me with little time to write.

Saturday, December 31, 2016. It All Begins With Light. Tonight I light the 8th night of Hanukkah candles. I was planning on staying in the New Testament this year, focusing on the stories of Jesus and the 2,000 years of Christian tradition, good and bad, that his followers have developed. But the Menorah, its nine slots for candles, and the box of 45 candles beckoned me.

The great inversion should be a reality for each of us who claim to love God with all our being. Jesus Loves Me, This I Know? December 29, 2009.

An ordinary family living out an extraordinary life as God unfolds it before them. The bend in the road. Not every detail of the journey is revealed to us before we take the step. Sometimes you just have to put one foot in front of the other and see where it leads you. Or rather, where He leads you. One thing is certain though, each stride prepares you for the next one. The start of that journey was 13 years ago.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007. May God richly bless you! Tuesday, May 8, 2007. And on Sunday when we arrived at the beach I laid down with him to take a rest and watched him sleep in my arms for an hour and remembered him as a sweet baby.

Okay, it has come to my attention that the boys are grossly behind in reporting their lives here. So we will begin to catch up over the next few weeks. 8221; Anyways, it was such a good party.