Second Homestudy Visit

       Henry has been sick with croup all week and Mary Taylor came down with a fever today. That did not stop us from piling our whole family in the car to head down to Columbus, Georgia for our second homestudy visit. Our first visit was in our home and our last visit will also be in our home, but this individual interview usually takes place in Lifeline's office. We each switched off taking care of the kids during each of our interviews. The kids had a great three hours playing at the local Chucky Cheese down the street! That place sure brings back a lot of childhood memories! I loved skiball and trying to get as many tickets as possible and then getting a little dinky plastic toy with my one hundred tickets! That was the best!
        Anyway, the interviews went well. I was definitely emotionally drained after the visit. For an hour and half I talked about my whole life's story. It was hard going to those places I have not gone in a while. It reminded me of how far the Lord has brought me and what I used to be before he changed me. I do not miss the past! I do not wish to go back to my four years in college! They were not the best years of my life! God was working in my life, but I was still so miserable with myself and in bondage to sin. Oh, how thankful, I am, who I am today because of the person and work of Jesus himself! If God had not intervened and rescued me from myself, no telling where I would be and how miserable I would be today. I was an orphan and he rescued me from the destruction of the world and made me his daughter. Oh, what a Good God we serve! I long to bring this kind of love into the life of a child that God has called us to adopt. I will not do this perfectly, but hopefully Christ working through me will show this child unconditional love and acceptance.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only son, that who so ever believes in him, he will have eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord." John 3:16

^"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:21