Well it has been forever since we've last officially blogged, but we can assure you that both Jen and I have been writing many blog posts in our heads. Pretty fantastic ones too, but they have not yet made it to the world wide web yet. Not that I have much time to bring you something truly fantastic right now, but the last two weekends have really been emotional.
This is putting it very simply.
Jen is drafting up a post that explains everything in enough detail, but something that God has been showing me personally lately is how painful a process that redemption is. Not that I'm surprised by this thought, but I am learning just how true it is. It is painful for both Agape and us equally, just in different ways. Currently, Jen and I are a little bit done with this whole redemption thing and are wishing things could be "better".
We've been doing a lot of hard work with our family, and seeing little results. We press on simply knowing that this has to happen and believing that someday good will come from it. Lately I've turned to Mother Teresa's timeless wisdom to help encourage me to keep going. Here are some really good ones from her.
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."
"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."
Just some great thoughts for you to chew on. Stay tuned for Jen's post.
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