a late night post

Whew, what a day. This may be short, cause it's late.

My finger doesn't like the cold weather, that's for sure. It was about 40 degrees for most of our game today. Fortunately, we played good ball today. We hit well, and our pitchers only allowed one hit to Altoona's JV squad. I think we're finding our stride as we get into the meat of our season. We've scored 28 runs on 29 hits in 62 plate appearances over the past 2 games. Maybe even more impressive is that we played errorless ball today in the freezing weather. We have two more games this week.

Two cool things happened today, set opposed to one not so cool thing.

I got an email from a former student--Erin (Smartnick) Uhlinger. She was a little bitty junior high young lady when she waltzed into our life and ministry. She decided to follow Jesus, grew tons and bunches, headed off to Toccoa Falls College, married a young man, and they started life together in student ministry. What an encouragement her email was.

Secondly, I got to pray with and for a friend who is wrestling with spiritual growth. I believe that we all need people to gather around us and PRAY with us as we work through the junk that ends up in our hearts. Again, more encouragement!

The not-so-cool was an email from our adoption agency informing us that the wait for our adoption of Annabelle, our baby coming from China, just went up to 18-19 months. Kim and I are sad, but we believe that God knows, sees, cares, and is working behind the scenes. We will wait, knowing that God cares for the orphan. The last half of Psalm 10:14 assures us that the helpless put their trust in God, and that he defends the orphans. We will wait, in confidence.