What a year!!

It's time to celebrate!! This coming Friday marks our first anniversary in Belgium. We want to truly take time and praise the Lord for the triumphs and trials which He has brought us through this year. So, here we go...
We thank Him for each of them, because we have learned to love and trust Him so much more deeply because of each of them. We thank you for being with us and encouraging us during this journey. We thank the Lord for the people which He has placed in our lives, for the two homes in which we have lived, for the three supervisors which we have had, and for all of the illnesses which have invaded our bodies. We thank the Lord for the use of the metro system and our wonderful van. We thank Him for the churches which we have been able to worship in and the fellow believers which we have met and grown to love. We thank Him for broken bones and new babies. We praise Him for the language acquisition which He is granting to all of us. We thank Him for teaching us that He is all that we need (this is a lesson that we are continuing to learn). We thank Him for wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ, living life here in Belgium with us. We thank Him for technology which has allowed us to see some of your beautiful faces through skype. We thank Him for airplanes which have allowed loved ones to come and give us hugs and kisses when we needed them most. We thank Him for allowing us to share His name with some who have never heard anyone speak of Him in the way that we do. We thank you for your prayers. We thank you for lifting us up while we sleep. We thank you for loving the people of Belgium and wanting them to come to know our beautiful Jesus. I think that I could go on for a long time, but I will end my list here. I know that there are some many more things for which I could praise Him.

Please take time this week, to reflect on what the Lord has taught you this past year, month, or week. And reflecting on Him, praise Him!!

We thank Him for what He will teach all of us this coming year. We praise Him for His beautiful faithfulness and sovereignty.

Romans 12:12 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."

Our move!

We have moved to a new city, so I have been quite busy with unpacking, getting settled, finding new grocery stores, new schools and everything else. We are very excited about our new city and the blessings that the Lord has in store for us here. I will update you very soon on what the Lord has been teaching us as we moved here and begin to get settled into our new life. We are so thankful to be on this crazy and challenging adventure with our Lord!!