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| Damsel in Distress! |
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| Not crazy about this fish! |
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| Nature's swing |
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| Daddy and I had fun on the kayaks too! |
Saturday, May 31, 2014
We love the river (and our own creek) Spring 2014
Happy Day May 31st !
May 31st two years ago we added a ray of sunshine, a blast of drama, and bunches of giggles to the Crooks family! It has brought us so much joy to watch this little girl enjoy childhood with such a zeal for living life to the fullest! She is one joyful little girl, and we are so happy to call her ours forever. She is such a cutie too...what a bonus! I love my "brown-eyed curly girl"!
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Month 5 on our adoption journey!
Little Miss has a new saying she likes to use VERY often.."Caleb dooes it." She uses it at various times when it is handy like when she is caught in a wrong behavior or when something is destroyed. Before I can even open my mouth.."Caleb dooes it."
We found the first thing that Little Miss is scared of...hummm...Baby Goats! They are perhaps the most docile creatures known to man, but for some reason these creatures that are popping up everywhere scare her!
She loves mashed potatoes the best I think of all her foods that are non-cheese items!
The kids are so great at coming up with interesting conversation material. This week we have been discussing, "what if Chickens laid...." and they have said cream cheese, marshmallows, Hershey kisses (which Jonas said they did do that?!), strawberries and many other great things to think about and today Caleb added TVs!
Caleb has separation anxiety about leaving all his baby goats to go to the movies and dinner tonight. He said, "Mama, I am going to miss those baby goats tonight."
We told Jeb we were going to G-ville tonight to sign the adoption paperwork and I loved his reply, "She is worth it." So cute and so true.
She loves to say, "momma come get your baby girl," when we are getting out of the shower! I love the way she says "baby girl." You'd just have to hear it!
The girl LOVES sour cream. With some "cream" to dip in, I can get her to focus on eating some meat. She'd rather just eat veggies and fruits, which I am fine with ...but occasionally meat is good.
when you have 2 brothers your dolls might have nine toes...but she doesn't care! She'd prefer wrestling and throwing them anyway at this point.
The Connected Child
One year thoughts on our adoption journey included!
Some parts I needed to digest and some parts I felt that we already had gotten hold of!
Play is the best therapy. Laughing with a child, being face to face, and being active with children...reading books, working puzzles, playing games, running around on the trampoline--THIS IS good THERAPY!
Perfectionists are always hauling their heavy expectations up a steep mountain and never stopping long enough to enjoy the view--Purvis, There is an added pressure for adopted children to "act right" "be right" "look right" since they are "different" in some way...we must let this pressure go!!!
Be compassionate: overly empathetic even:
"Children are needy. But, in the case of adopted/foster kids that neediness is magnified. Children from hard places need extra nurturing and attention. ...If you have preconceived notions of how much neediness is acceptable you may subconsciously....resent your child..YUCK.
Be comfortable with touching...this communicates much love and reduces stress levels.
You and your child are being asked to team up together and perform an unfamiliar dance. Both partners are struggling to observe, get coordinated, and learn the new steps. This is a shared process that with practice, will soon seem effortless.
This is from Amazon re: this book and I edited parts of it! I didn't have time to write a full-review, but if you have a child that is AT ALL difficult to manage and hard-er to love then this book is for YOU.
If you are thinking about adopting a child from a foreign country or even a child who has been shuttled from foster home to foster home, you must read this book first if you want to raise a happy and healthy child.
There are dozens of parenting books on the market, but what makes this book so very special is the authors' ground-breaking, empirical research with adopted children. Their research has been done at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX (http://www.child.tcu.edu/) Their discoveries and methods are unique because they use a holistic approach to healing the wounded child. The result is that they are quietly creating miracles as their methods are learned by others and spread around the world. Their research is also helping other at-risk children, including those with autism.
According to the authors, structural changes take place in the brains of infants who were abused or deprived prior to adoption. Unfortunately, it is common practice in some foreign orphanages for babies to be laid on their backs for 24-hours a day, with a bottle propped into their mouths, and lying in soiled clothing. They are never cuddled or talked to because it makes them cry for more attention. These orphanages become eerily silent as babies eventually give up their voices. Similarly, toddlers beg for food from their cribs, only to be ignored. Many children are sexually abused in these orphanages.
Many adoptive parents believe that all they have to do is adopt the baby, and love and nurture it, and everything will be fine. However, the authors' research shows that these parents are about to face the biggest, and perhaps the most expensive, challenge of their lifetime. Happily, that challenge will be rewarding, and more likely to succeed, if they read "The Connected Child" and practice the authors' advice. And so should their pediatrician or any other caregiver! They will understand what made their child unapproachable, angry, fearful, sexually precocious, sleepless, aggressive or withdrawn. Most importantly, they will have the knowledge and the tools they need to ensure their child develops normally.
The authors' research grew out of a summer camp they developed for adopted children with emotional and behavioral problems. Saliva and urine tests were done on each child. The chemical results were shocking! They discovered that the children's neurotransmitter levels were off the charts. They also discovered that when they used specific behavioral interventions, and gave them special supplements with the support of a doctor, the children's' neurotransmitter levels began to normalize. Their behavior changed completely!
Some parts I needed to digest and some parts I felt that we already had gotten hold of!
Play is the best therapy. Laughing with a child, being face to face, and being active with children...reading books, working puzzles, playing games, running around on the trampoline--THIS IS good THERAPY!
Perfectionists are always hauling their heavy expectations up a steep mountain and never stopping long enough to enjoy the view--Purvis, There is an added pressure for adopted children to "act right" "be right" "look right" since they are "different" in some way...we must let this pressure go!!!
Be compassionate: overly empathetic even:
"Children are needy. But, in the case of adopted/foster kids that neediness is magnified. Children from hard places need extra nurturing and attention. ...If you have preconceived notions of how much neediness is acceptable you may subconsciously....resent your child..YUCK.
Be comfortable with touching...this communicates much love and reduces stress levels.
You and your child are being asked to team up together and perform an unfamiliar dance. Both partners are struggling to observe, get coordinated, and learn the new steps. This ia shared process that with practice, will soon seem effortless.
Make your focus TEACHING right behaviors; no fussing when they are expected and not done...I had to work through this!
Establish CLEAR parental authority. This is hard when you are trying to get to know a child and show them love unconditionally BUT it must be done...we are still trying to work this out! We DID however when the bedtime battle during months 6-9!! Yeah for us!
A prayer I made up based on a line or two of the book: God let us be effective healers in our child's life.
Respect and honor your child's needs even when you don't understand what drives them!
Observe your child CLOSELY!! This really helped me see what stressed her and what caused me to be stressed by her and then we could BOTH avoid those situations!
'
Use lots of eye contact and minutes of full attention since these are a huge gift to your child.
Nurturing and structure: keeping the balance right creates safety, trust, release of control, and creates new behaviors. Connecting and Correcting...repeat that mantra!
Isolation is worse for a young child then mistreatment??? I did not know this. Why is it not easier for more people to go and get babies out of foreign orphanages. Someone MUST change this.
"...Our goal is to free up and reveal this magnificent inner core and to enable a child to experience his/her full potential as a loving, connected, competent individual"
Of course routine and structure were HUGE in this book and we are good at that around here! She says to help make your child's world predictable!
"Honor emotions." This one is tough for me b/c whining seems to be something that happens...and it gets old. Fast. I think girls are just more emotional!
"Keep your messages short and sweet. Use a group of stock phrases or scripts designed to communicate values simply." Listen and OBEY is one of mine! I want to start using this one.."I want to help you do this right." THEN, allow a re-do/repeat.
Don't take behavior problems personally!
Use much praise and specific praise!
I have to offer her some power--choices! She loves that!
"Don't lob words at kids and expect them to obey as you are rushing about." GUILTY.
The IDEAL approach:
I - Immediate The response must be quick. They recommend within 3 seconds of the misbehavior.
D - Direct Be near. Make eye contact. Avoid distractions.
E - Efficient Use the least amount of firmness and words necessary to make the point clear.
A - Action-based Lead the child to a "do over," redirecting him or her to an appropriate behavior.
L - Level the response at the behavior, not the person.
Some parts I needed to digest and some parts I felt that we already had gotten hold of!
Play is the best therapy. Laughing with a child, being face to face, and being active with children...reading books, working puzzles, playing games, running around on the trampoline--THIS IS good THERAPY!
Perfectionists are always hauling their heavy expectations up a steep mountain and never stopping long enough to enjoy the view--Purvis, There is an added pressure for adopted children to "act right" "be right" "look right" since they are "different" in some way...we must let this pressure go!!!
Be compassionate: overly empathetic even:
"Children are needy. But, in the case of adopted/foster kids that neediness is magnified. Children from hard places need extra nurturing and attention. ...If you have preconceived notions of how much neediness is acceptable you may subconsciously....resent your child..YUCK.
Be comfortable with touching...this communicates much love and reduces stress levels.
You and your child are being asked to team up together and perform an unfamiliar dance. Both partners are struggling to observe, get coordinated, and learn the new steps. This is a shared process that with practice, will soon seem effortless.
This is from Amazon re: this book and I edited parts of it! I didn't have time to write a full-review, but if you have a child that is AT ALL difficult to manage and hard-er to love then this book is for YOU.
If you are thinking about adopting a child from a foreign country or even a child who has been shuttled from foster home to foster home, you must read this book first if you want to raise a happy and healthy child.
There are dozens of parenting books on the market, but what makes this book so very special is the authors' ground-breaking, empirical research with adopted children. Their research has been done at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX (http://www.child.tcu.edu/) Their discoveries and methods are unique because they use a holistic approach to healing the wounded child. The result is that they are quietly creating miracles as their methods are learned by others and spread around the world. Their research is also helping other at-risk children, including those with autism.
According to the authors, structural changes take place in the brains of infants who were abused or deprived prior to adoption. Unfortunately, it is common practice in some foreign orphanages for babies to be laid on their backs for 24-hours a day, with a bottle propped into their mouths, and lying in soiled clothing. They are never cuddled or talked to because it makes them cry for more attention. These orphanages become eerily silent as babies eventually give up their voices. Similarly, toddlers beg for food from their cribs, only to be ignored. Many children are sexually abused in these orphanages.
Many adoptive parents believe that all they have to do is adopt the baby, and love and nurture it, and everything will be fine. However, the authors' research shows that these parents are about to face the biggest, and perhaps the most expensive, challenge of their lifetime. Happily, that challenge will be rewarding, and more likely to succeed, if they read "The Connected Child" and practice the authors' advice. And so should their pediatrician or any other caregiver! They will understand what made their child unapproachable, angry, fearful, sexually precocious, sleepless, aggressive or withdrawn. Most importantly, they will have the knowledge and the tools they need to ensure their child develops normally.
The authors' research grew out of a summer camp they developed for adopted children with emotional and behavioral problems. Saliva and urine tests were done on each child. The chemical results were shocking! They discovered that the children's neurotransmitter levels were off the charts. They also discovered that when they used specific behavioral interventions, and gave them special supplements with the support of a doctor, the children's' neurotransmitter levels began to normalize. Their behavior changed completely!
Some parts I needed to digest and some parts I felt that we already had gotten hold of!
Play is the best therapy. Laughing with a child, being face to face, and being active with children...reading books, working puzzles, playing games, running around on the trampoline--THIS IS good THERAPY!
Perfectionists are always hauling their heavy expectations up a steep mountain and never stopping long enough to enjoy the view--Purvis, There is an added pressure for adopted children to "act right" "be right" "look right" since they are "different" in some way...we must let this pressure go!!!
Be compassionate: overly empathetic even:
"Children are needy. But, in the case of adopted/foster kids that neediness is magnified. Children from hard places need extra nurturing and attention. ...If you have preconceived notions of how much neediness is acceptable you may subconsciously....resent your child..YUCK.
Be comfortable with touching...this communicates much love and reduces stress levels.
You and your child are being asked to team up together and perform an unfamiliar dance. Both partners are struggling to observe, get coordinated, and learn the new steps. This ia shared process that with practice, will soon seem effortless.
Make your focus TEACHING right behaviors; no fussing when they are expected and not done...I had to work through this!
Establish CLEAR parental authority. This is hard when you are trying to get to know a child and show them love unconditionally BUT it must be done...we are still trying to work this out! We DID however when the bedtime battle during months 6-9!! Yeah for us!
A prayer I made up based on a line or two of the book: God let us be effective healers in our child's life.
Respect and honor your child's needs even when you don't understand what drives them!
Observe your child CLOSELY!! This really helped me see what stressed her and what caused me to be stressed by her and then we could BOTH avoid those situations!
'
Use lots of eye contact and minutes of full attention since these are a huge gift to your child.
Nurturing and structure: keeping the balance right creates safety, trust, release of control, and creates new behaviors. Connecting and Correcting...repeat that mantra!
Isolation is worse for a young child then mistreatment??? I did not know this. Why is it not easier for more people to go and get babies out of foreign orphanages. Someone MUST change this.
"...Our goal is to free up and reveal this magnificent inner core and to enable a child to experience his/her full potential as a loving, connected, competent individual"
Of course routine and structure were HUGE in this book and we are good at that around here! She says to help make your child's world predictable!
"Honor emotions." This one is tough for me b/c whining seems to be something that happens...and it gets old. Fast. I think girls are just more emotional!
"Keep your messages short and sweet. Use a group of stock phrases or scripts designed to communicate values simply." Listen and OBEY is one of mine! I want to start using this one.."I want to help you do this right." THEN, allow a re-do/repeat.
Don't take behavior problems personally!
Use much praise and specific praise!
I have to offer her some power--choices! She loves that!
"Don't lob words at kids and expect them to obey as you are rushing about." GUILTY.
The IDEAL approach:
I - Immediate The response must be quick. They recommend within 3 seconds of the misbehavior.
D - Direct Be near. Make eye contact. Avoid distractions.
E - Efficient Use the least amount of firmness and words necessary to make the point clear.
A - Action-based Lead the child to a "do over," redirecting him or her to an appropriate behavior.
L - Level the response at the behavior, not the person.
Month Four Adoption Reflections...Along Came You...
A friend gave me the sweetest book with a mom and daughter (one whose blond and one whose brunette) and it shows the mom having good times with her toddler daughter throughout the book. Along Came You by Karen Drummond really made me think about all the fun and funny ways my life has changed the last four months!
Each page of the book is something like..."Before you, my house was decorated in style and after you, my home is decorated with love."
The end line of the book says, "Before you, I was me. After you, I am still me. But you are with me. Life became amazing...after you."
So, this is my version of that story for Little Miss to read one day!
Before you,I only had one set of curls to tame each morning.
After you...now I have two sets to tame!
Before you,I did laundry all alone.
After you...I always have an assistant to load and unload the dryer.
Before you,no one said "hold me" very much any more,
After you...I hear "sit down mommy" and "hold me" very often!
Before you, no one here liked Kitties much.
After you...Kitty is a BIG DEAL!
Before you, no one ate bowls full of fried okra, black-eyed peas, and peas.
After you, we eat more beans and veggies!
Before you, we had no "super girl" flying around in Daddy's arms.
After you..."super girl" flies all over the house.
Before you, it was loud and crazy at our house,
After you..it is louder and crazier...and even funnier after supper.
Before you, we had dance parties in the kitchen to LOUD music...
After you, we have learned that nobody can shake bootie like you can girl!
Before you, we ate all our meals with an empty lap.
After you...as soon as we take our last bite our lap is full ...of you sipping tea and cleaning up leftovers.
Before you, everyone prayed during their turns and moved on.
After you...everyone prays during their turn AND you pray during everyone's turns!
Before you, I did not know any thing about bows and tights and painting little nails.
After you...I know bows get lost, tights get ripped, and little nails come unpolished quickly.
Before you, I always painted my toes and nails alone.
After you...I don't pick my own colors and have two sets to dry!
Before you, no one cared what I liked or what color I liked.
After you...I hear "I like purple too Mama or I like it too Mama."
Before you, I was not singing so much.
After you...we are learning a song a week and you love to sing to me and have me sing to you on the potty, in the rocker, in the car.
Before you, there was no one to rock at night.
After you...there is a sweet angel face to snuggle close, be silly with, and sing with in the rocker.
Before you biggest brother had no one to wake up and love on...
After you, he relishes in waking you up and speaking sweet words to you first thing in the morning.
Before you little brother had no one to show all his cool club and building creations to.
After you, he always has a "fan" to see his creations and and dig in the sand box with him.
Before you we didn't have a cheerleader living with us.
After you, we always have someone to cheer for us and you also love for us to chant your name!
Before you, my water bottles and cups sat lonesome all over the house.
After you...my cups always have a matching sippy sitting with them b/c you must have a cup touching mine!
Before you I had forgotten how important and magical Magic Erasers were!
I had forgotten how good suckers were.
I had forgotten that cheese is good. You love cheese everything!
Daddy is playing dolls for the first time tonight. When the boys came in yelling like bulls and bears she yelled as loud as she could, " GO AWAY!" She is not sharing Daddy's time.
Whew..month 4 has flown by. You are really playing better with Cay Cay. You are the laborer and he is the building supervisor!
You love to put your babies down for naps and give them passies.
You still love the trampoline and learning cheers. We made up a fun X,Y,Z cheer! You still love to sing songs and we started a new family handshake "cool dude" that you think is so funny. You added your personal click to the family shake. Two thumbs touching, cool dude, and then you click. You even have me give Kitty Cool Dude shakes!
Each page of the book is something like..."Before you, my house was decorated in style and after you, my home is decorated with love."
The end line of the book says, "Before you, I was me. After you, I am still me. But you are with me. Life became amazing...after you."
So, this is my version of that story for Little Miss to read one day!
Before you,I only had one set of curls to tame each morning.
After you...now I have two sets to tame!
Before you,I did laundry all alone.
After you...I always have an assistant to load and unload the dryer.
Before you,no one said "hold me" very much any more,
After you...I hear "sit down mommy" and "hold me" very often!
Before you, no one here liked Kitties much.
After you...Kitty is a BIG DEAL!
Before you, no one ate bowls full of fried okra, black-eyed peas, and peas.
After you, we eat more beans and veggies!
Before you, we had no "super girl" flying around in Daddy's arms.
After you..."super girl" flies all over the house.
Before you, it was loud and crazy at our house,
After you..it is louder and crazier...and even funnier after supper.
Before you, we had dance parties in the kitchen to LOUD music...
After you, we have learned that nobody can shake bootie like you can girl!
Before you, we ate all our meals with an empty lap.
After you...as soon as we take our last bite our lap is full ...of you sipping tea and cleaning up leftovers.
Before you, everyone prayed during their turns and moved on.
After you...everyone prays during their turn AND you pray during everyone's turns!
Before you, I did not know any thing about bows and tights and painting little nails.
After you...I know bows get lost, tights get ripped, and little nails come unpolished quickly.
Before you, I always painted my toes and nails alone.
After you...I don't pick my own colors and have two sets to dry!
Before you, no one cared what I liked or what color I liked.
After you...I hear "I like purple too Mama or I like it too Mama."
Before you, I was not singing so much.
After you...we are learning a song a week and you love to sing to me and have me sing to you on the potty, in the rocker, in the car.
Before you, there was no one to rock at night.
After you...there is a sweet angel face to snuggle close, be silly with, and sing with in the rocker.
Before you biggest brother had no one to wake up and love on...
After you, he relishes in waking you up and speaking sweet words to you first thing in the morning.
Before you little brother had no one to show all his cool club and building creations to.
After you, he always has a "fan" to see his creations and and dig in the sand box with him.
Before you we didn't have a cheerleader living with us.
After you, we always have someone to cheer for us and you also love for us to chant your name!
Before you, my water bottles and cups sat lonesome all over the house.
After you...my cups always have a matching sippy sitting with them b/c you must have a cup touching mine!
Before you I had forgotten how important and magical Magic Erasers were!
I had forgotten how good suckers were.
I had forgotten that cheese is good. You love cheese everything!
Daddy is playing dolls for the first time tonight. When the boys came in yelling like bulls and bears she yelled as loud as she could, " GO AWAY!" She is not sharing Daddy's time.
Whew..month 4 has flown by. You are really playing better with Cay Cay. You are the laborer and he is the building supervisor!
You love to put your babies down for naps and give them passies.
You still love the trampoline and learning cheers. We made up a fun X,Y,Z cheer! You still love to sing songs and we started a new family handshake "cool dude" that you think is so funny. You added your personal click to the family shake. Two thumbs touching, cool dude, and then you click. You even have me give Kitty Cool Dude shakes!
The sixth month and then forever!
This marks the last month that we will be a pre-adoptive family. We have really already signed all the paperwork and now we just wait on the court date. This Mother's Day will be super special as we dedicate our Little Miss to the Lord. This has been such a faith journey and I am so happy to say that God has been so faithful to make us brave in the hard times and give us so much grace along the way to becoming a family of 5. She is so totally delightful, though strong-willed, and so easy to love. We transitioned to a big-girl bed last night (seems like things with her have been in fast forward so I am trying to cherish every day even more) and she slept beautifully. Daddy did the tucking in and stayed for a while while the fairies on her lamp danced them both to a sound sleep. My dad used to fall asleep in my bed all the time so it was sweet to go in and wake him up. It brought back so many memories of my Daddy's TLC.
When Jeb and I went to wake her up this morning (as he still always wants to do) he said the sweetest thing: "this is like the first day at Disney Wold." He says the cutest things about her like, "she says the cutest prayers," and "you are so adorable." Jeb can be quite the loud and sometimes annoying handful lately, but at his core and in his essence he is really the most loving, compassionate child. I am blown away be some of the things he says about God and his natural inclinations to enjoy others and care about them. I feel so blessed to be his mother. When I got his report card, I was beyond proud at how he has navigated the real world in 1st grade and then I put it down and really thanked God not for any of his "accomplishments" on paper, but for who he is.
So very overjoyed to be a mommy to three this Mother's Day! I can't imagine life without kids. These are truly some of the best times of my life and though I realize that I can't slow it down any. Thank you God for the little souls you entrusted to me...I feel so honored.
Journey To The Fatherless: What a great book about how/why more Christians should be on this journey.
"If we keep the blessings that God has given us and don't share them, those blessings will corrupt us."
Oswald Chambers.
Prayer—thank you God
for blessing us and giving us the privilege to be your hands and feet to your
children. God thank you that we can trust you to take great risks; thank you
that you will supply us with all we need to do your work; help us through your
Spirit to sacrifice our time, energy, resources and trust you with our most
prized possession here on earth—our families.
I am not saying that this journey is any sort of picnic as we have experience many of the things that we said we’d never want to….losing our foster baby for 2 weeks –giving her to strangers, then having a semi-relationship with a birth parent. These are stressful interactions to say the least, but to me being a Christian means doing the hard stuff. I know that the eternal rewards will far outweigh the momentary spiritual growing pains I’ve had along the way. Some of you may feel scared about what this might mean for your “birth” children, but despite it being really hard some days I can say that I believe that ours are more compassionate, more caring, and more aware of others (empathetic) b/c of this journey—b/c they have been rubbing shoulders with other kids –just like them—that don’t have a stable family to thrive in.
The concept of adoption is God’s own design (see Biblical examples below)! In love He predestined all of us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:4-5 He chose to adopt us and there is not one of us that he does not love or think is better than the other one! There is nothing GREAT about us that made God want to adopt us. He wants to adopt us into His family simply because He loved us and wanted a relationship with us.
I do believe that when we become believers that God plants a dream in our heart to accomplish for His glory—this is why he gives us all spiritual gifts. I have prayed the prayer of Jabez for years and never felt God’s calling to go into foreign missions, but for many years I have felt a real tug on my heart to love children in need of love here in our own area.
As the Message Bible says…I can’t think of a better
ministry to “place your life before God” then this one.
Romans
12: Place Your Life Before God
12 1-2 So
here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary
life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it
before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing
you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit
into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be
changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and
quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down
to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops
well-formed maturity in you.
God help us to pour out your blessings. Thank you that your
word says that you did not leave us at orphans—you came to us. John 14:18
God has promised a blessing if you take the risks: Psalm 41: 1-2 NASB
41 How blessed is he who considers the [a]helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of [b]trouble.
2 The Lord will protect him and keep him alive,
And he shall [c]be called blessed upon the earth;
And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.
Want to reach others for Christ? Your lifestyle has to look a little different:
" Apologetics 101 begins not with having the right answers to others' skeptical challenges, but having the right lifestyle to raise the right questions." Swindoll
I never had connected Job to caring for orphans, but there is a whole chapter on his plight in this book.
Check out Job 29:11-14 NASB
Job 31 16-22
Which Jesus do you follow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Svz6YFtkI&feature=kp
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