We were going to get two weeks off after a full summer of support raising, continued house renovations, ministry, and neighborhood involvement. My prayer going into it was that we would be refreshed and refueled to be able to enter into “launch phase” of this church planting endeavor with much energy and enthusiasm.   Our […]

Where have the Iversons been all summer?!? Three full months, and no words? No blog posts? No adventures to recount? No thoughts or impressions from the Lord? No musings from the Living Word of God? Oh, they have been there. They have been mulled over while scrubbing pots and pans. They have been formulated while […]

We didn’t get what we expected. But now we wait in expectation for what we will get We will get Strength when we have none. Faith to ride the storms. God moving, moving in our children, when I’m rendered too weary for the job. Order when I can’t be the one to enforce it Joyful […]

Friday we had our final adoption home study meeting in which our caseworker came to our home to approve it as safe and suitable for the addition of another child (we will be paper-ready by next week!).  One of the last interviews was that of our children to ask how they felt about adopting.  Being […]

I yelled at my kids today. ALOT. Don’t get me started on how I felt justified in it, and if they would just actually OBEY then it wouldn’t drive me to that point, or how Danny’s been out of town, so I’ve been single parenting five, make that 8 kids if you count the neighborhood […]