Faster than Jonah

We have big news to share!! Something so big that only God could orchestrate.  As my dear adoptive mama friend Amy said to me yesterday... "she would have run in the opposite direction faster than Jonah" if she'd have known she would be adopting five babies. I so echo her words!  This is just crazy; however, I would not change a single thing. Well... okay... maybe one... that I would have learned radical obedience many years earlier. I still don't get it right and I know for certain I  have missed more of what HE has called me to than I've gotten right. BUT... GOD... HE is faithful and His mercies are new every. single. morning.  Praise Him.  This journey over the past five years has just been wild and has not made sense to us and definitely not to others.  All we can say is that we are called and Greg and I both desire to hear our Father's voice and walk in it. Does it make sense? Absolutely not! But that's what makes it all point straight to Him and His call to care for the Fatherless. I'm changed forever and my deepest desire is to live in "insane obedience" to Him! 
So... here's our news....

Lila for the Franks!!!

two bravest I know

Esther and Josie have been home with us for 18 months now.  So... I thought I'd share pictures of our family over this past year....
Both girls have experienced many new things... From learning to swim to playing the piano. They have been eager learners. Without a doubt, they are two of the bravest people I know. 
BOTH girls love the Lord and have given their lives to Him. Their genuine love for Christ has blown us away.  They were both baptized in the spring the evening our family celebrated our Passover seder meal. What a special memory and reflection of what HE has done for each of us by sending Jesus Christ to be the perfect spotless Lamb to cleanse us of our unrighteousness. 
My prayer continues to be that the Lord would redeem the lost years that we have missed with these two precious souls we get to call daughters. 
I'm so thankful we said yes to bringing them home. Our lives have been forever changed.  What blessings they both are. Our Father is great and greatly to be praised!!

Do you see the difference in them? Their smiles... they all melt my heart.