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Sarah is at the point where we’re expecting hear the transition from babbling sounds to words. Recent experiences have reminded us of something we learned when we welcomed Sarah into our lives in Korea. In Korea, we were told that Sarah’s foster family played peek-a-boo in Korean and they told us the Korean version of … Read more
Sarah will be baptized in a service tonight at West Side. I wrote the following prayer in my journal this morning. Precious Lord, you are so abundantly good to us! Today is Sarah’s baptism and we have looked forward to this day and planned for this day and rejoice in this day. And we give … Read more
I am currently doing a sermon series on “Life in the Wilderness.” The wilderness represents those times when life doesn’t go according to plan, when something happens that we aren’t expecting. Everyone goes through the wilderness; no one is exempt. And the wilderness changes us — no one comes out on the other side unchanged … Read more
Ethan and (especially) Sarah are usually beyond the point of being ready for naps after church on Sunday mornings, but we did manage to take a photo yesterday just before lunch.
It’s fun to hear Ethan’s language develop. In our home, we call them Ethanisms (someday, we’ll start a list of Sarahisms). I’m sure most families have their list of favorite things kids say. Here are some of our favorite Ethanisms (at least the few we’ve written down!). One day at meal time, I asked Ethan … Read more
As I wrote in my last post, we attended a seminar at the General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) in Washington, D.C. last week. Here are a few reflections on the seminar experience which took place on Capitol Hill. GBCS, which addresses social issues, began as The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals. … Read more
As part of our ordination process, we were required to attend a seminar at the General Board of Church and Society, which took place earlier this week, Monday through Wednesday (more on that in a later post). Sunday morning, we drove to Harrisburg where we joined the rest of the group and a bus transported … Read more
One of the books I finished up during Lent, as part of my Lenten Growth Plan, was Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book (which I wrote about a couple times after I started reading it last year: Eat This Book 1.0 and Eat This Book 2.0). Peterson also wrote The Message, a paraphrase/translation of the Scriptures, … Read more
Last fall, about two weeks after we brought Sarah home from Korea, went went to Parker Dam for an afternoon. While there we snapped this photo. Back then, Sarah, at 8 months old, wasn’t very mobile. But she, as well as Ethan, has grown a lot in the five months since then. It was especially … Read more
Six months ago today in Seoul, Korea, one day after meeting Sarah for the first time in her foster family’s home, we welcomed Sarah into our lives. The six-month mark is a milestone because it’s only after this point that we can legally file our petition to finalize the adoption (although, for legal purposes, the … Read more