Dream

We have a dream.  It's kinda intimidating.  Almost too big to share...  Why do we like to keep our dreams to ourselves?  Too intimidating, even to us?!  Fear of everyone knowing, and then it not coming true?  The possibility of it really coming true?!  :)  Maybe the dream will change.  Maybe it will be above and beyond all we can ask or imagine?!  Maybe it'll look totally different in the end?

big ol' family... 

Anyway.  We have a dream....  I went back in my blog to February 2010 and saw that I shared some of it then, too!  Heh.  So here we are, one year later, still dreaming!  Hummm...  We've taken a few steps forward and maybe a few steps back?  But we haven't let go.

Our dream is to adopt and for Kevin to be able to write for his job.  So if we could push those two together and see what that could look like...  Big house, big yard, lots of kids coming and going, Daddy in his office about to publish his next big work...  sounds good, huh?!  Kind of a combination between Funny Farm and Cheaper by the Dozen??

isn't his office in one of those windows
on the second floor behind him?

My prayer for Kevin for the past year or so is that he'd have a vision, a dream.  (Proverbs 29:18  "Where there is no vision, the people perish"  right?)  He's come to realize that if he could do anything, he'd work from home, spend time with his family, and write.  His schedule would be flexible enough for him to be involved in other ministries and opportunities in the church.  Awesome.  It's exciting to know what you'd love to do!  A vision is really a great thing!  Now what?!  Heh.  How do you go about accomplishing that dream?

Well, normally, people don't just fall into writing jobs overnight.  So do we wait and try by writing and sending things out?  Yeah...  Kevin has been writing and his new project is pretty cool.  He figured he'd write out his devotions everyday and share them with you!  Check it out at http://www.everydaydevotions.com !  Writing is one good step to becoming a writer.  But we also could use a little bit of money now...  :)  So look for a job and write on the side...  so we look for a job.  And until he's found a job and settled in, we can't really proceed with the adoption/homestudy stuff...  Is this what God wants us to do?

Sometimes we think too much.  We don't want to just go off in our own way and dream our own dream.  Is this what God's plan is?  Is this the dream He's given us and put into our hearts.  Biblically, who could argue with us wanting to be a home for lonely orphans?  Who could disagree with writing to encourage others in the faith?  But where's the line between what we want and what He wants?  It makes all the difference.  If this is His plan, we hang on tight and run forward.  If it's our plan, we hold loosely and be prepared to let go.   Show us Your way for us, Lord!  We want to know it, and pursue it!

Cheaper by the Dozen farmhouse 

So I guess for now we step forward, be prepared for excitement, and...  wait.  We know God has good plans.  Each day we will seek to please Him.  And hopefully in the end we'll see the pieces of the bigger picture fall into place.

Ephesians 3:20
"Now to Him who is able to do
Immeasurably More than all we Ask or Imagine,
according to His Power that is at Work within us,
to Him be Glory in the church 
and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations
forever and ever! Amen."