Beauty Day 4 - a grandparents love

I attend many youth sporting events.  Many.  As I sat watching Andrews basketball game today I sat behind a Grandma.  Her teenage grandson saw her and gave her a hug, and then sat with his arm around her for awhile.  I went to The Nutcracker later in the day and watched grandparents hugging their dancer granddaughters.

 They were so proud of them, even if they didn't dance or play well. Just being their grandparent is enough!

My parents love, loving on their grandkids.

My grandparents are all in heaven, but they sure loved me.  I knew it too.

A grandparents love is a thing of beauty.

Beauty Day 3

Joe and I went on a double date last night. We saw Sara Groves in her "O Holy Night" tour. She is a gifted musician. This video of hers is one of my favorites. I love lyrics, songs with meaningful lyrics are my favorite. A beautiful voice is a wonderful thing.
A voice used to glorify God is a thing of beauty.

Beauty day 2

These won't all be about Amy, but the first 2 I thought of are.
 Beauty in an orphanage in the poor country of El Salvador?
 This picture is (blurry) of Amy at Exodo Orphanage in El Salvador.  She is playing with the infant/ toddlers during a break.  The little girl, Millie, is hiding her watermelon slice from Amy.  This was our last day at the orphanage and Amy had a very hard time leaving.  She cried as our bus drove away saying " how can we leave them here?"  The country of El Salvador does not have agreements/rights for adoptions out of the country right now.  Believe me, if they would have, we would have had a few in our suitcases for the ride home.
 Amy has decided that she wants to go into medicine and travel allover the world helping kids like these.  She can do it too!
Watching your child find their passion is a thing of Beauty.

60 Days of Beauty

Watching  a child face and overcome a fear is a thing of beauty.
Derry's 60 days of beauty. Derry is doing a series and I am going to try and get back to blogging and join along.
Hiking the gorgeous Grand Canyon was fun, but so very scary and a bit overwhelming.  Amy was very scared, and didn't want to hike down.  It was scary, no railing and at least a 300 ft straight drop down jagged rock. 
What did she do?  She prayed out load and quoted and sang scripture.  We all sang along (Steve Green's Hide em in your heart is priceless).  She walked as far as anyone, past Ooh Ahh point.(or ohh lala point as Joe kept saying)  She sat out on ledges and took risks.
Watching your child face a fear and conquer it is a beautiful thing.

a blogcation

Unintentional, but still.  Between, changes in blogspot, a harddrive crash and school(for all of us) starting, I haven't been on here in awhile.  I am going to try and get some Haiti, El Salvador and new family pictures on here.
These are all of Joe in Haiti.  The trip affected him in a profound way, just ask him about it.  I am so proud of him and oh so glad he went.

Back home again in Indiana.....

We are home and had a wonderful trip.  God is alive and working in El Salvador.  His hand of protection was on us as we travelled in the second most dangerous(violent) countries in Central America.  The children at Exodo orphanage are beautiful, full of hope and joy.

More pictures to follow...

El Salvador

http://exodo2010.wordpress.com/

there is a link to another blog which is following their work in El Salvador.

Tia is sharing devotions this morning from Matthew 25:37-40

37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'



40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'


I have never loved my wife more.

 miss them but all this technology helps!