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Big News . . .

Posted by Mary Beth on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

We’ve been waiting for weeks to share our big news, and the time has finally come. After tons of prayer and thought, and sharing and praying with the people closest to us, we have decided to adopt a baby boy from Ethiopia.
Ever since I went with my parents to adopt my little [...]

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Caleb the Worship Leader

Posted by Mary Beth on Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Caleb is crazy about all kinds of music, he loves to play his guitar and drum. If there were a Guitar Hero or Rock Band game for toddlers, he would be a pro. But his favorite music is worship music. He runs around the house singing worship songs all day, and he [...]

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Our Family Mission

Posted by Casey on Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Mary Beth and I sat down last night to design our Family Mission Statement together. It took us a while to come up with an idea, but Mary Beth was the one who decided to use verbs to define how we wanted our family to be. We both sat at the computer for [...]

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The Great Divorce

The Great DivorceThis may be my favorite C.S. Lewis book. My dad read it aloud to our family when I was in high school, and then I read it for my C.S. Lewis class in college. It is a fictional story told by a man who is in hell but gets to visit heaven. Lewis’s view of heaven and hell is very unique and really gave me a lot to think about. Lewis would argue that people are sent to hell because that is what they choose, and, in Lewis’s book, many of the people in hell don’t really realize that that is where they are, but they are certainly unhappy and are determined to make others unhappy too. On the other hand, heaven is a wonderful place designed for people who have chosen God.