Fun with the boys

Wow, Has it been that long since I posted?! I wanted to share some great pictures from today.

Adoption Devotion

Last Thursday night at UpWard Basketball the devotion was given by a young woman whose parents adopted a sib group of six on top of already having four homegrown teens at home. I have copied the devotion here to share....(taken from The Great House of God by Max Lucado) It's wonderful when God speaks to us through others! I thought the devotion was wonderful but mostly her personal story of how her parents fostered this sib group and when they came up for adoption the wife nervously asked the husband if they could adopt them and his reply (which was the same as my dear husband's! response!!) I guess we will have to buy a 15 passenger van! God is good!

God Has Adoptd Us
When we come to Christ, God not only forgives us, he also adopts us. Through a dramatic series of events, we go from condemned orphans with no hope to adopted children with no fear. Here's how it happens. You come before the judgement seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of His justice he cannot dismiss you. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, he punished Himself on the cross for your sins. God's justice and love are equally honored. And you, God's creation, are forgiven. But the story doesn't end with God's forgiveness....
It would be enough if God just cleansed your name, but he does more. He gives you His name. It would be enough be if God just set you free, but he does more. He takes you home to the Great House of God.
Adoptive parents understand this more than anyone. I certainly don't mean to offend any biological parents I'm one myself. We biological parents know well the earnest longing to have a child. But in many cases our cribs are filled easily. We decided to have a child and a child came. In fact, sometimes the child came with no decision. I've heard of unplanned pregnancies, but I have never heard of an unplanned adoption.
That's why adoptive parents understand God's passion to adopt us. They know what it means to feel an empty space inside. They know what it means to hunt, to set out on a mission, and take responsibility for a child with a spotted past and a dubious future. If anybody understands God's ardor for His children, it's someone whose rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us.
God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.

If you were this house what color would you be?

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