Thank you all for praying for Haiti and our kids in the past week. As far as we understand the rioting in Haiti has stopped, but things are still not good for the Haitian people. Please continue to pray for their hunger and political strife.
We heard that an employee of the Orphanage was in route to find our children's family (not by our request, but by the loving heart of Three Angels) and the riots started around him so he couldn't make it. Thankfully he's OK. That just goes to show you though... what awesome dedicated people Three Angels has working for them. We're so thankful that the staff and Gretchen are hanging in there and helping us press on as we wait on the Lord.
I wanted to share an awesome word God shared with us a few days ago. Rob and I were sitting on the porch on Sunday, enjoying a GREAT spring day when we heard a sound we never heard before. We couldn't figure out WHAT the sound was and we were prompted to look straight above our heads into the sky. What we saw were three gloomy crows flying and gliding in a circle almost like vultures would. I have never seen crows do that before, or make such weird noises. It was interesting to watch. As we glanced upwards again we wondered what spurred all the commotion, then, something else caught our eyes. About 20-100 feet above the crows, was a beautiful free soaring hawk. Most likely the crows were scheming up a plan to pick on the hawk.
The word God gave us in that situation was that we need to push past the gloom to see the glory and experience freedom. We could have just focused on the crows (the doom and gloom of life) but focusing on the hawk (unwaveringly victory, freedom and confidence) was much more pleasing!
And isn't that just the way crows and hawks are too!!? Later on we saw one of the crows dive bombing the hawk, but the hawk had such confidence and such good focus on what he was hunting that the dive bombing didn't hardly phase him a bit. When we are truly focused on the Lord, we will be unchanged by the enemies dive bombing.
We heard that an employee of the Orphanage was in route to find our children's family (not by our request, but by the loving heart of Three Angels) and the riots started around him so he couldn't make it. Thankfully he's OK. That just goes to show you though... what awesome dedicated people Three Angels has working for them. We're so thankful that the staff and Gretchen are hanging in there and helping us press on as we wait on the Lord.
I wanted to share an awesome word God shared with us a few days ago. Rob and I were sitting on the porch on Sunday, enjoying a GREAT spring day when we heard a sound we never heard before. We couldn't figure out WHAT the sound was and we were prompted to look straight above our heads into the sky. What we saw were three gloomy crows flying and gliding in a circle almost like vultures would. I have never seen crows do that before, or make such weird noises. It was interesting to watch. As we glanced upwards again we wondered what spurred all the commotion, then, something else caught our eyes. About 20-100 feet above the crows, was a beautiful free soaring hawk. Most likely the crows were scheming up a plan to pick on the hawk.
The word God gave us in that situation was that we need to push past the gloom to see the glory and experience freedom. We could have just focused on the crows (the doom and gloom of life) but focusing on the hawk (unwaveringly victory, freedom and confidence) was much more pleasing!
And isn't that just the way crows and hawks are too!!? Later on we saw one of the crows dive bombing the hawk, but the hawk had such confidence and such good focus on what he was hunting that the dive bombing didn't hardly phase him a bit. When we are truly focused on the Lord, we will be unchanged by the enemies dive bombing.
6 comments:
thanks for the illustration! hawks are pretty incredible, i say!
and i too am thankful for the diligence of three angels and the employees!
I agree with you about Three Angels & their staff. I thank God for them! Thank you for the illustration of the hawk & crows.
I love hearing stories like this about the diligence of TAs! Praise God! And what a great illustration. I definitely have a tendency to focus on the crows. ;)
Very cool analogy!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!
Wow, thanks for sharing!!
Very nice. Thank you...
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