Ellie loves "baby" and wants her near her all the time. She is gentle enough that Josie tolerates her just fine! :) enjoy!
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To advance the gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of laborers living and discipling among the lost. Boom! My life collided with this short statement seven years ago right before my last semester of college, while I was attending an EDGE Preview conference in Colorado Springs. This conference was a recruiter for Navs' EDGE Corps staff internship program. What I appreciated about the conference, was that 3/4 of it was vision-casting related to the above Calling. I left that conference thinking, "I want to live out this calling with my life, no matter where God takes me." I did end up joining EDGE Corps and am so thankful I did, but it was the Calling, not EDGE Corps that captured my heart. This weekend, I'll be attending a similar EDGE Preview in Indianapolis, where older students from Illinois and Indiana will be hearing about this same calling, encouraged to live it out wherever God takes them, and asked to consider living it out in the context of an EDGE Corps staff role for a year or two. Would you please pray that our students would be attentive to the Lord's voice, and would be captured by the Calling? Please also pray that some would choose to live it out in the context of Navigator staff. The Nav calling is being lived out by thousands and thousands around the world, most who are not full-time Navigator staff. Check out the video below for the story of one such couple...living out the Calling where God has placed them. Happy 2013! -Noah There are lots of blog posts swirling in my head of things I want to write about... Posts about how the Lord has been working in my heart, goals I have for 2013, stories of our first Christmas in IL, pictures of Josie, ways Ellie is learning and growing, all the adustments we're making as we care for 2 girls, etc. etc. But the thing on my mind tonight is how good it feels to be "normal" again.
Josie is almost 6 weeks old- which means I'm almost 6 weeks post c-section. That means I can finally lift Ellie again. It feels good! It has been a long 6 weeks.... trying to care for your daughter when you can't lift her up, you can't put her into her crib, or get her out, you can't help her into her high chair, you can't put her into her carseat, you can't even lift her onto your lap to read some books to her is pretty much impossible. Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly grateful for all of the HELP I have received. We have had lots of help from family and I am SO grateful for that! Noah has been absolutely amazing as Ellie's "primary caretaker!" But it just feels good to feel like her mom again! As I put her to bed tonight- lifting her onto the chair to cuddle and read books with me and lifting her into her crib, I've never been more grateful. It feels good. And to think that just 3 months ago, Ellie had yet to take her first steps and I was carrying her ALL of the time (while being nearly 8 months pregnant!) We have come a long ways, and it feels good! |
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