How do you name someone for life? The pressure is quite heavy-handed, and the wandering mind pictures scenario after scenario of said name in action. We named our son Tozer. Unique for sure. When we were doing our “searching” of names, not only did it come back with zero results, but we were asked if we made a mistake.
Read MoreWhat a perfect time to share this news. Just another example of thankfulness overflowing in your heart to worship God. He’s led us through many sleepless nights. He’s been our peace, our joy and our strength. In any and every circumstance that has come our way.
Read MoreI remember our baptisms. My wife was a new Christian and ready to make the public commitment to be baptized in Christ's death. I remember we drove around all day, going from the streams within Platte River State Park, to the banks of the Platte, then to the mud of the Missouri. I was soaking wet and muddy, searching for a place to baptize my wife. Honestly, we could've done it in a ditch and it would've meant the same because her heart was right.
Read MoreThe night before our baby girl was delivered, we had a big decision to make: to have a cesarean section the very next morning or wait longer, risking an emergency C-section. Paul and I had mere hours between the time we made the decision and the time we'd be meeting our little girl.
Read MoreWe live in a tiny house. Not what's considered an actual "tiny house" today, but a small house nonetheless. Our plan was to stay for the first year of our marriage and here were are on our way to our third wedding anniversary! Because guess what? We've absolutely grown to love it!
Read MoreWhile we were trying to get pregnant, someone asked me when we were going to have kids. We were very private about being unsuccessful, so I remember saying something like, "Right now, I'm just too big to be pregnant." I have no clue why I blurted that out! Must've just been a bad day, because I definitely wasn't trying to shed any pounds, and as a plus-size woman, I am comfortable in my skin.
Read MoreWe were sitting in the waiting room today and sharing a Tozer book together, reading about Abraham and Isaac. Tozer talked about how God let the suffering old man go through with offering his son up to the point where He knew there would be no retreat, and then He forbade Abraham from laying a hand on Isaac.
Read MoreAll glory to God! We're pregnant! Baby Valla is coming this November. Almost everyone we've shared our news with has asked how it was announced to Dad-to-be, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to share more about worship. Because that's exactly what we did.
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