What’s been inspiring me lately

I love the craziness of Lora Lynn’s blog … loved this post – A Beautiful Mess:

Adoption is a perfect picture of how our Heavenly Father, who saved us and adopted us as His own, loves us. Adopted children do not implicitly trust their new parents. And we are not inclined to trust our Heavenly Father, though we KNOW He has our best at heart.

And yet God continues to love us, to call us His.

I’ve told you all that adoption is NOT the perfect solution. It’s the result of brokenness, a fallen world. And it’s messy. But then, so was our own spiritual adoption.

The road to the cross… it was ugly. The wait had to have been painful for Jesus, knowing what was ahead. People let Jesus down, broke His heart. And the ultimate WRONG had to happen, the death of God’s son, in order to make things RIGHT.

Out of that hideous MESS, God brought redemption. He made us beautiful.

Also, this post.

From Momma Mindy’s blog, this post was excellent:

In one year, Scott and I were one of five couples who got married.
The women who spoke highly of their husbands are still married.

Not scientifically calculated, just an observation.

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Seriously … that post was really good.

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I’m not terribly familiar with this blog, but I really liked this quote I found:

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The response from many people is pity for a wife who says she is raising her children, but they would probably think how dedicated she is, how noble, if she would say she acclimates newcomers to this country by having them live in her home and training them how to speak the language, become mobile, learn to read and write, become useful citizens, and deal with the American culture without losing their sanity.