Archives for March, 2009

A Moral Necessity


It is a matter of moral necessity – something required of every human person. It’s something we are all responsible to do. It’s like telling the truth. It’s like taking care of your family. It is the good thing that we ought to do. The new U2 album, now that it exists, puts a happy obligation [...]

Protected: If the Lord wills: Learning to trust the most important party in Carson and Madalyn’s adoption


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“God is so good”


Last night we hosted two soon-to-be missionaries to Ethiopia in the room prepared for our children from that place. Two weeks ago when we sent our adoption letter, we received the following facebook message with the subject line, “God is so Good.” Hey Trent, we got an exciting piece of mail from you today! Not [...]

The Letter


Some of you have requested an electronic copy of our adoption letter. Here it is! (removed file until children are home) To get a quick snapshot of what our letter is about, check out this wordle: Feel free to pass this along to friends and to family. We are grateful for many of your very [...]