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Fundraiser

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No less than 5 minutes after he told me his tooth was "really wiggly," I was face-to-face with a gap-toothed Noah.  "Wow, that was fast," I said.  To which he declared, "Yeah, I really wanted the money that I get from the tooth fairy (which he knows is really us), so I just ripped it out."  Well, I guess that's one way to make fifty cents!

Don't Cry

Sometimes I wonder at the Lord's ways. “For My thoughts are not  your thoughts, Nor are  your ways My ways,” declares the  Lord . 9  “For  as  the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts."  Isaiah 55:8-9 I find myself, less than eight weeks after my miracle pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage, miscarrying again .  Another miraculous pregnancy, another miscarriage, right on the heels of the last one.  I don't really have all that much to say about all this that I haven't already said  in my previous post ...   Except this.  I don't think it's a coincidence at all that the very day I began miscarrying this time, Seth said his first complete thought; a two-word sentence.  "Don't cry."  Clear as day, from the mouth of my little 19-month-old son, a precious reminder to my aching heart that God has this too under His sovereign control. Thank you, Lord. (We have an appointment wi