Thanks, Moody Donors!

We received gift baskets from some people who donate to the school to pay for our tuition! Every college student loves snacks.  Thanks!!!

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Cross-Stitching Project

Last year about this time, I began cross-stitching a stocking for myself. I also bought a pattern to do for Stephen, but I started on mine first, since it looked way more daunting, and I figured if I was going to bail out, I’d do it on this one, and my sister-in-law wanted the other [...]

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Singing in Hofburg Palace

I finally got this video to upload. It’s the chorale singing  Psalm 23 in the dome of Hofburg Palace.

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Oswego, Here We Come!

You’ve probably never heard of Oswego, IL.  We hadn’t either, until about five months ago.  It’s a suburb about 50 miles southwest of Chicago.  Many of you have heard by now that Stephen and I will be moving to Oswego after we graduate in May.  I know a lot of you are confused about our [...]

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My Crazy Dream

I had a very scary dream last night.  I was at my parents’ house and there were a bunch of men that had come to hurt my dad.  At any rate, I couldn’t let them hurt my dad, so I came out of the garage door ready to fight them.
The men had been replaced by girls. [...]

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Doable Busyness

The last couple of weeks since school started have been the most insane weeks of my life. And that’s saying something. I told my mom earlier that I didn’t know the meaning of the word “busy” until now. (The sad thing is…I probably still don’t–we don’t even have kids yet!)  My workload has been so [...]

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Adoption and the Gospel

“John Piper says it best, ‘Adoption is the visible gospel.’ Caring for orphans at any level I believe is the most visible picture of the gospel we’ll ever see or show the world around us.” –Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth have been strong advocates for adoption since the adoption of [...]

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