One Sought Me

In my part of the world, the popular sport of choice for this season is sewing.  Sewing?  Yes, well, it's a winter sport for me with its challenges, obstacles, and skills to be improved upon!  Not to mention that it hasn't been above 10 degrees Fahrenheit for near a month and with wind chills at -25 to -40 tonight, one just has to stay inside in the comfy cozy walls of home! Out comes the sewing machine and projects left behind from seasons past.  This time, I decided to tackle a new project that will be put to good use in the future: an Airplane Tray Table Cover for future traveling!  Thinking of sunny Ethiopia just brightens the mood from the winter blues too! After searching the web, and viewing images of other "airplane tray table covers" (search it, you'll find them), I decided to create my own.  This is pic is of my first attempt.  Overall, it turned out fine and I am happy with the end result.  To give you an idea, this would slip over...

During my recent (June 2014) missions trip to Haiti I was witness to many amazing things.  Amazing in a beautiful way and amazingly heartbreaking ways.  God surely was the coordinator of this trip as several planned events came to pass, but several unplanned events were better than we could have ever imagined. God knew the perfect timing of our missions team coming to Haiti and the exact people that we would encounter along the way.  He brought the children to the Bible lessons.  He held off the rain and dimmed the sun so that we could paint.  He opened our eyes and our hearts to know more of who He is.  I know that my life has changed after experiencing this trip. Take some time to read through previous posts about the trip where I journal through our time in Haiti.   Haiti Day One ,  Day Two ,   Day Three , Day Four , Day Five   One experience particularly touched my heart .  A team of three of us were serving in Haiti by pa...

Haiti Trip Journal Entry Day 5 Thursday, June 5th Another early morning but sooner than expected from the alarm clock as I awoke from the lack of the humming sound of the fans shutting off.  We lost power at about 4 a.m.  That means the solar panels didn't get enough juice from the overcast day yesterday.  That's ok.  I'll take the overcasts days for great days to paint!  So no fans this morning which makes me sticky and super hot awfully fast.  I tossed and turned a bit in bed until it was 5 a.m. and then it was time to get up anyway.  Another awesome, God-sent day for painting! My room-mate and I start the day with praying and listening to praise music on our phones.  We have been drawn to the song "Write Your Story" and "Press On"  as we know that God is writing each of our life story as we trust Him every step of the way.  And when troubles and stumbles do come our way, we 'press on!' Several second coats needed done today a...

I'm soooo excited that several of our friends through our adoption agency are now in the traveling stages!!  Just recently there has been a swarm of court dates issued and several families will be visiting Ethiopia for the first time to meet their new children!  Thrilled and excited for them! Though I'm not a super traveler expert by far, but I did want to share my travel list for my recent travels to Haiti.  During the trip and the ins and outs of the airports, I was constantly taking mental notes and thinking of what my next travels would be like when going to Ethiopia. So for the sake of my traveling friends in hopes to give a few tips, I'm sharing this post with a detailed travel list, ideas, and tips for packing for international travel. It all started out with this!  A huge unloading of my closet where I have been collecting travel items for months! Slowly but surely I added items for travel, with helped spread out the costs too. The medicine p...