Back, for now.

I am back, for now. As most of you who know us personally know, sheshe (the mother of the eleven) has been ill. She has a progressive neurological disorder that has the doctors stumped. Over the holiday’s she ended up in the ER twice and was admitted to the hospital once. She is doing better this week and we are grateful for God’s mercy in this regard.

I am going to post some thoughts over the next few days on why I think home schooling is the only reasonable option for the Christian adopting older foreign children. I hope to have the first one this evening.

Finally, I want to comment on sheshe’s illness. It is during such times as these that God shakes out many of our faulty ideas about Him. You see, too often we trust in what He does rather than Him. Not that it is wrong to trust in His provision, but first and foremost we must trust in His person. How is that different? If we are merely trusting in His provision, what happens when He does not seem to provide? If we are trusting in Him, we can say like Job “Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?" Though we do not understand His purposes, still our trust is in Him.