Something is Missing...

For the first time since we started our adoption journey in July, I feel like something is missing, or someone is missing. It feels like our family is incomplete, not exactly like it does when our college guys are not at home...something more. How can I feel like I am missing someone I don't even know yet? But I do, and they are precious to me, they are mine.
As I observe in the breath-taking beauty that is the autumn season-my favorite, I am ever aware of the here and now and the not yet in so many ways. I praise you Lord for creating a heart in me that leaps this time of year. The coolness in the air, the beauty in the colors I love, the evidence of God's glory in the majestic trees, the fragrance, caramel apples, apple pies, hot spiced tea, hoodies, sweaters and cute boots, chili, getting cozy on the couch with my favorite throw, football, fall festibals(as Annie used to say), chocolate chip pumpkin muffins...all of it.
Just one thing is missing...well maybe two.

KISSES FROM KATIE by Katie Davis will be released on Tuesday Oct. 4th and you can get your copy at the 147 Million Orphans Event from 10AM-7PM in the BACK BARN of Fellowship Bible Church in Franklin, TN . Spread the word, bring a friend. 147 fall gear will be available they are emptying out the warehouse and bringing out all the gear!  

 

 

One Less Orphan T-shirts & Silicone 
Bracelets are here!

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Silicone Bracelets-front & side view

kisses from katie...

"Jesus does not ask that we care for the less fortunate-he demands it.
When calling ourselves Christ followers, caring for the orphans,
the desolate and the widow are not options-it's a requirement." Katie Davis
*Turn off my music at the bottom left of the page to hear this sweet
woman of God.

Great Quote

So I ran across this quote that I love. "In circumstances and relationships I will gaze at the good and only glance at the bad." This is from Amy Lynn Andrews I don't know if it's original to her or not but I love it. It's what I've tried to articulate to my children... one of the most important gems of wisdom I hope to pass on to them. May I live my life this way.

Greatest Sorrow

"Do you know what the greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on God the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is? It is not to believe that he loves you." Theologian John Owen
I can't get enough of adoption theology right now as we are beginning our adoption journey. I was profoundly affected by C.J.Mahaney's message as he spoke of how much we grieve God when we don't believe that he loves us. He said, we may think it's perhaps our scandalous sin that saddens him most, yet it is not.Why? Because he sent his only son and he crushed him with his full furious righteous wrath against our sin...so that he might redeem us from our sin and liberate us from the penalty of sin and to adopt us as his sons. It's as if God is saying, "Why don't you believe me? What more would you like for me to do? I crushed my son." And when Jesus in the garden of gethsemane, he prayed to God saying, "Is there another way? Take this from me." But God did not answer. There was no alternative. Then on the cross the Father had to endure his son crying out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" He goes on to explain that not only does God justify and redeem us but he adopts us so he could pour out his affection, and be close to us both here and in heaven for all eternity, and he calls us sons.
"But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law,that we might receive the full rights of sons.Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, 'Abba, Father.' So you are no longer a slave, but a son;and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir." Galatians 4:4-7
Oh that I would believe! What would my life look like if I truly believed how much he loves me? To hear C.J.Mahaney's powerful message click here:
http://www.shepherdsconference.org/media/details/?mediaID=832