WHY IN THE WORLD ARE WE BLOGGING??

We aren’t bloggers.  It’s something we have been perfectly happy to leave to “the others”.  “The others” are those people who are fancy schmancy writers and story-tellers. They are the ones with creativity and organization of thought and craft ideas to share and seemingly endless wisdom for the rest of us. We don’t have those skills. We admire them from afar.

We also aren’t all that interested in sharing the details of our lives every day. Not that we don’t love ours, but some days are boring. Some days are mundane. Some days involve too many tears and too much chocolate to confess.  We don’t put that kind of stuff on Facebook (you know, what we had for dinner, the details of our stomach flu, our raging anger at the politicians and the check-out clerk at the store, and the private home conversations that really, really should remain private).  Since we aren’t fond of sharing this stuff, we assume that there aren’t too many people outside of our mothers that have an interest in reading it.

But here we are on November 21, 2011.  AND GOD IS ROCKING OUR WORLD.  EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED.  OUR VISION. OUR PURPOSE. ALL OUR ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT OUR EMPTY NEST YEARS.  THE WAY WE ARE DEFINING PHRASES LIKE “INTENTIONAL LIVING”, “FOLLOWING CHRIST WHEREVER”, “RADICAL OBEDIENCE”, “DENYING OURSELVES”.        And we are compelled to share it. We are compelled to share it because His Name and renown are the desires of our heart.  We are compelled to share it because He has done great things beyond all we could ask or think. We are compelled to share it as an act of worship, as a way of rejoicing with people we love. We are compelled to share it to gently plead the cause of the orphan. And we are compelled to share it because God used the adoption blogs of other people to bless us, encourage us, confirm His calling to us, excite us, challenge us, and connect us by surprise to our kids while we wait to adopt them.  We would love love love to be able to do that for someone else who is thinking about jumping in this crazy adoption adventure.  And we would love to have tons of our precious family and friends to be able to follow along and be a part of our day to day journey while we are in Ukraine.  AND SO…… we blog.