absolutely

 I haven't meant to be so distant in my writing...I have just been short in the overflow, taking each day piece by piece and clinging to Him. I can't say much about much, either, so...

Pray with me for Haiti, where the slightly more-stable season we managed to travel in has once again been shifting back to less-stable...fuel shortages, dear friends experiencing robberies and travesties and traumas, more violence, struggle.  Pray for Emmaus as they cling to perseverance in Him, graduation approaching on May 13th and everyone bending backwards to finish well despite a crumbling climate.

Pray with me for this baby girl...the extra complications of being 35+ and in a "geriatric pregnancy" (how I love when they use that term) are more real than I thought they would be, causing me to have to lean into Him and trust Him more than I expected. We are due on Father's Day, June 19th, and weekly appointments without kids in tow add to our busy days. 

Pray with me for my dad and brother, Dad spending tomorrow at the Cleveland Clinic, receiving more chemo, more tests, and meeting with a slew of experts on next steps now that it seems what he has been doing is no longer making progress. Pray for my brother as he seeks lots of empty things less than Jesus, continuing patterns of helplessness and hopelessness. 

Pray with me for some sweet extra kiddos currently in our care, incredibly challenging situation with a lot of hard patterns as well. It is a heavy time to go from 4.5 to 6.5, but when it is clear that the church is needed and that the church you are, it is clear. Pray for all the grace and healing and good/true help that is needed.  

Pray with me for Matt's Wesley Biblical Seminary life and ministry and my homeschool life and ministry, both wrapping up with gusto, extra events, extra visitors coming in from out of town for WBS events and graduation on May 7, and working to finish 7th, 5th and 1st grade well and full before baby comes!  

Thank you so much for your precious prayers as we balance between being fully relied and abandoned to Him and the temptations to get sucked away by our own efforts. 

that God might have us, absolutely