A Beautiful Mosaic

Snapshot 1: Celebration!  We are celebrating with our oldest, long-term youth recently about her acceptance into her top choices for college in the fall!  What huge obstacles she has overcome to make this possible, and we are so proud of her!  She will more than likely be moving into our Transitional Living Program for Girls later this month to practice Independent Living before being completely on her own this summer.  We will miss her but know God has huge plans for her and this is a step in the process.  We are excited to continue to have a role in her life as her sponsors once she leaves care. Snapshot 2: Worship!  Michael and I were compelled this week to try one more church that we never visited when we first moved here and had since heard great things, and I was biting back tears throughout the service this morning at the refreshment I felt in the atmosphere.  I was connecting in worship, gleaning from the sermon, and encouraged by the spir...

We live in a digital age.  Microsoft has spoiled us - when we can not backspace or "undo" mistakes, incredulality and frustration occur on all levels.  We are accustomed to cutting and pasting: taking one item in its fullness and directly translating it in its exactness and precision to another location.  And it is a rather faultless function.  What I "cut" out is exactly what is "pasted" into its new location.  It's simple.  It's clean.  It works.  And I can't help but wonder if this simple philosophy of word processing has seeped into our philosophies and policies of life.  But oh how dangerous.  How dangerous it is to think that a human being can be cut out of one environment cleanly, easily, and swiftly and translated into a new environment in a perfect, faultless order.  No; people cannot simply be cut and pasted.  Well, we cut and paste them all the time.  The average child in foster care has been i...