What a beautiful family... on vacation in NC at an old homestead.
Their cousin got a BB gun for Christmas... notice the concentrating tongue action!
Making the annual Christmas cookies!
Birthday Party for Jesus! The Nabors Family didn't get to join us this year... don't worry guys we ate enough cake for us all!
Isaac's new favorite sandwich... peanut butter and mustard... yum, yum!
This was the Spiderman Christmas for Isaac... I saw him walk up to his Nana unprovoked not long ago and thank her sincerely for his Spiderman underwear!!!
Joshua loves trains and this was a favorite gift!
Sweet Grace at her piano recital... cool cake huh? No I didn't make it!
What a cute picture of two sweeties... they both love to be touched and hugged!!
Here is a recap for you in words of our lives over the past few months:
Over the past few months God has been doing a wonderful work in our lives. I wanted to share some photos of my wonderful husband and I. God has shown me what an amazingly humble, loving, sensitive, and adoring father and husband he is. We have experienced revival in our marriage and family and I am so grateful that I wanted to share some of that with those of you that check our blog every now and then.
It started about 4 years ago with gradual steps away from our Lord. Allowing hurt feelings to fester, not communicating, not being sensitive to one another. This continued and escalated for 4 years, then God broke through. On Thursday, November 14 we were confronted with sin head on. God made us both broken hearted and humble, needy before Him. And just as His Word promises in Psalm 34:18 "The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, close to those that are crushed in spirit." We were crushed that we were nowhere near where we wanted to be in our marriage or our relationships with Him.
Our relationships with Him had a "white washed tomb" look to our Holy God. Good on the outside, but spiritually dead on the inside. But God forgives and renews, He broke up the hard ground of our hearts through confession to Him and one another. Now after two months we are doing wonderfully. I am so grateful for such a adoring husband. God has truely given me everything my heart had been looking for. To Him be the glory.
It started about 4 years ago with gradual steps away from our Lord. Allowing hurt feelings to fester, not communicating, not being sensitive to one another. This continued and escalated for 4 years, then God broke through. On Thursday, November 14 we were confronted with sin head on. God made us both broken hearted and humble, needy before Him. And just as His Word promises in Psalm 34:18 "The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, close to those that are crushed in spirit." We were crushed that we were nowhere near where we wanted to be in our marriage or our relationships with Him.
Our relationships with Him had a "white washed tomb" look to our Holy God. Good on the outside, but spiritually dead on the inside. But God forgives and renews, He broke up the hard ground of our hearts through confession to Him and one another. Now after two months we are doing wonderfully. I am so grateful for such a adoring husband. God has truely given me everything my heart had been looking for. To Him be the glory.
Prayer Requests from us to you:
Joshua will have surgery on February 12th. The hard part will be recovering from mouth surgery and staying one or two days in the hospital. The amazing part will be this surgery will give him the proper anatomy to be able to talk. The doctors say that within a few months he'll be talking much clearer... pray for sooner rather than later. Thanks a ton for your prayers, encouragement, and support!
1 comment:
Dear Clayton and Angie Dinn，
Thank you so much for your email.
I got your email but I can't send my email to your email address.So I use this way to contact you.Could you use another email address to send us email?Thank you so much,because we want to keep in touch.Now you use address adinn@comcast.net.
I am Tom.I started working at Hope Haven from July in 2008.I do the
office job and am in charge of foster program.I will ask my colleagues
about Joshua Xi Wang Dinn.I will let you know more about Joshua.
This email just wants you to know that I got your email and I will
collect more information about Joshua.
Thank you so much for your love and for adopting Joshua.
May God bless you abundantly!
Love,
Tom Zhou
Hope Haven
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