Joel and Amy are off to China to get a delightful new daughter. Like the new year offers a clean slate to write your history of 2004, a new child has a clean mind and heart. What we say, how we show our love impresses on them how the world should treat them. Knowing my cousin and his wife the way I do, their little Rebecca will be a loving, generous and happy person in no time at all. She will learn to respect others, to ask questions, to seek truth and not settle for what she sees and hears on t.v. This will be no "Barney Baby," but a unique and precious person.
I am looking forward to a new year full of joy, of writing songs, and performing for people who don't even know the name of Jesus. When we trust a higher power to lead us, the road may not always be easy, but it is always interesting.
Psalm 5:11 Let all those rejoice who put their trust in You
Let them ever shout for joy (shout, shout for joy!)
Because you defend them. Let those who love your Name
Be joyfuyl in you. (shout, shout for joy!)
For you, O Lord, will bless the righteous, surround him with favor as a shield.
May God's favor surround Joel and Amy and Rebecca as they travel -
and may He surround you as a shield. Ann