richly blessed!

Our dear friends, Greg and Cathie, are flying up from Port-au-Prince tomorrow afternoon to spend the weekend in Cap-Haitien with us, and we are SO excited! We are so looking forward to the encouragement, good counsel and rest of being with family! We will mostly stay home, but hope to have enough fuel to take them "out on the town" Saturday afternoon.

This morning I was reading through Titus, and was really touched by the simple and beautiful way it states what God has been in my life. I shared the passage with my English class, and was touched again by how touched my students were (pictured below) by what God's been. "We have a lot of prayer requests," one pointed out, "but I have to remember to always be so thankful just for who God IS in my life."



Here's what it shares...Titus 3:3-8

"For we once were foolish ourselves,
disobedient, deceived, enslaved, obsessed with pleasures,
spending our lives in envy and malice,
hateful and hating one another.

But when the kindness of God our Savior
and His love for mankind appeared,
He saved us,
NOT because of things we had done in righteousness,
but just because of His mercy,
by the washing , regeneration and renewing of the Spirit,
whom He poured out upon us richly
through Jesus Christ our Savior,
so that His grace would make us heirs
according to the Hope of eternal life."