Blessed

I had the privilege of taking my two nieces to church last Sunday. Lilly loved church. She was thrilled that she knew the songs and sang at the top of her lungs. Moriyah did to. We got done with a song and Mo said, "I sing to Jesus!!"

Lilly sat next to me and drew pictures to Hannah, all of which said I love you. Then she started a new one and leaned over and said, "I don't know how to spell God." I looked down and she had written I Love and then God.

Those were the two moments that I cried in church last Sunday. I cannot explain the difference I feel in hearing the faith of a child in song and in their trust. That faith often brings tears to my eyes. I love hearing how my children love God. Today I was blessed by a young girl who sat behind me and sang with gusto. She doesn't even know it but her worship was encouraging to me.

As a parent I have had the unfortunate experience of my kids saying something so embarrassing in public. They did not mean to offend anyone they just said what they had noticed. They have not yet learned how to filter their thoughts to be polite. Because of this I often think that compliments from young children feel more true. They don't know the social rules yet. I feel a little like that with faith too. They don't have to be excited or happy to be up early on Sunday at church, but they are. They don't have to write love notes to God or sing at the top of their lungs, but they do. Seeing that faith touches me, it seems incredibly genuine. I have been blessed these past two Sundays by children. Thank you Father.

Our church

We do not meet with an established church. Instead we have been meeting with several couples and working on planting a church. This past week has brought a lot of change to our little meetings. We said goodbye to one couple and welcomed two new couples. Our new friends each have 6 kids so we no longer hold the record in our church!! We do still have the youngest kids which makes things interesting. Stuart and Diesta Love have been here the last couple of weeks and I have really enjoyed hearing them speak. Adam thinks he's like Dumbledore in his calm speaking presence. Its amazing to see the room quiet down and sit with rapt attention with just a word in his calm voice.

We have been able to sing songs this past week because we have more voices. We sang before but it was really pathetic if you ask me!! I still miss the voices from my family. Nothing can beat sitting around singing with the Wilsons and the Wolfgangs. Although I don't add much musical talent to the group I really enjoy listening and trying to keep up.

I am so thankful that we have found people to meet with and to begin the dream of planting a church. We have much work to do but it is good work. I know that Redmond will be blessed by the efforts of this new church to show people Jesus.

VBS in Portland

This past week we headed up to portland so that adam and isaac could be in the vbs at pump church. We left sunday morning and got to gresham right about when church started at East county church of christ. We headed in and as we walked in the door, being about 15 minutes late, one of the members looked at us and said, "Welcome home sarah." Thats what it felt like. It was so good to get to see and talk to old friends. East county will always feel like my spiritual home no matter where my physical home may be. I love Redmond but it has felt like a spiritual wilderness for this past year. I really miss being a part of a faith community.

This and That

My boys have been blogging lately. Many of you know of their old site, scurvy. They decided to go solo and get their own blogs. Isaac kept Scurvy and Andrew created a new blog called Meme. Check it out and look at the world through the eyes of two little boys. Please leave them a comment. they had come home everyday and checked their blog for comments. Only to be disappointed. I made a mental note to leave them one. Andrew checked his blog and said, "Yes! I got a comment!" Then I heard, "Oh, it was only mom."

Moriyah is seriously chubby. and we love it! I think that she's going to catch up to Hannah any moment. Hannah feels like you might break her if you squueze too tight. She just now weighs over 22 lbs. They are both darling and i love them very much. I would like to stop having the opportunity to love on them from the hours of 10 pm and 7 am. Hannah has very rarely slept through the night since september. Most nights Moriyah does better than her. I would love prayers for long uninterupted sleep.

We have been going to a church that is called SNC, it makes me think of SNL, saturday night church. They have a great band, the worship feels a bit like a rock concert. We are trying to get settled in their. the families pastor is very nice and a couple of the boys friends go there. The wolfgangs are doing pretty good over in very sunny and warm Redmond!