You make beautiful things out of us!

I remember like it was yesterday.  I wanted a family so bad, I wanted to be married, I wanted to be a father.  Maybe you were like me and had this plan in your mind.  I wanted to be married with kids by my 30th birthday.  That day quickly came and passed and my plan was ruined.  I remember looking back and realizing that I focused so much on my job and wanting to get things in order before I settled down. Sitting there at 30 I started to wonder if I would ever have a family, I wondered if I messed it all up focusing on the wrong things.

All this pain

I wonder if I’ll ever find my way

I wonder if my life could really change at all

All this earth

Could all that is lost ever be found

Could a garden come up from this ground at all

Little did I know that God had a larger plan.

All around

Hope is springing up from this old ground

Out of chaos life is being found in You

You see when I was 22 years old my sons were born, I just didn't know that. Nor did I know how these young men would change my life. I wasn't ready for them at 22, nor was I ready for them at 30.  God had work that he still needed to do in my life.

You make me new, You are making me new

You make me new, You are making me new

I remember when I received the call from Krista Davis asking me about the boys.  I remember the night before I met them, I got scared and thought I couldn't afford this-I couldn't pay for the adoption process, how would I be able to care for them?  I remember deciding that I couldn't move forward. No one would blame me, I felt like everything and everyone around me was saying you shouldn't do this or you can't do this (no one was saying this, it was just in my head). On my way home from "Food Club" the song "The Voice of Truth" came on and it felt like God was singing that song directly to me.  I sat in my truck listening to every word as tears rolled down my face. I felt peace, I knew I could only do this with God's strength.

All around

Hope is springing up from this old ground

Out of chaos life is being found in You

May 21st, 2012, three years ago today my life was changed forever. These two boys mean the world to me.

If things stopped there it still would have been an amazing God redeeming story, but it didn't.  You see God used these two to shape my life and prepare me for even more that He had in store for me. They prepared my heart for my future wife and family.

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of the dust

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of us

Today we celebrate much more than just the three of us coming together three years ago.  We celebrate the wonderful family God prepared for us all!!