Until next time...

    Hello again! This is basically a post to let you all know that I am leaving for Africa tomorrow!!!!! Therefore, I won`t be posting for awhile. :) I`m not really sure how much I can say about the trip in this public setting, so I`ll just say that it`s a mission trip to Ethiopia. Exciting stuff!! I am super pumped! And definitely nervous too. But hey, my God`s bigger than all that. Looking forward to seeing how He`s gonna stretch me, grow me, mold me, and challenge me on this trip. So, anyway, this will be my last post before the big trip and we arrive back home May 6th. So you can probably expect a post sometime after that. Or not. :) Well, until next time...


--Rye Bread

P.S: Just by the way, prayer would be greatly appreciated while we`re there!! Don`t want to be all demanding or anything, but it really would mean a lot! Thanks. :)

"His sweet voice soundeth..."

Jesus calls us o`er the tumult of our life`s wild, restless sea
Day by day His sweet voice soundeth, saying "Christian, follow Me."

Jesus calls us from the worship of the vain world`s golden store,
From each idol that would keep us, saying "Christian, love Me more."

In our joys and in our sorrows, days of toil and days of ease
Still He calls, in cares and pleasures, "Christian, love Me more than these."

Jesus calls us: by Thy mercies, Savior, may we hear Thy call,
Give our hearts to Thy obedience, serve and love Thee best of all.

-Cecil Alexander

Just thought I`d share this...have a great day! :)


--Rye Bread

Two years??

         So, today, crazily enough, is our 2 year fami-versary!!! Meaning that two years ago today, "Peaches" (6) was brought home from Ethiopia to be part of our family. Officially. And right now all I can think is, "What?!? Two years? Impossible!!" It`s pretty weird. But anyway adoption is super awesome. Knowing where my little sister came from and what she went through at such a young age is pretty incredible. Knowing where she would be now if we hadn`t adopted her. Wow. Praise the Lord that adoption is possible!! And man what an amazing picture of what our heavenly Father has done for us. So yeah. Two years. Still can`t get over it. Peaches is such a blessing in our lives. She keeps us on our toes, that`s for sure. We love you Peaches and we are so thankful that God put you in our family!!!!!

--Rye Bread



Another song...just a cover of a Jon Foreman song this time, if you want to check it out.

House of God, Forever (Cover)

New post...finally

Tear-Filled Eyes Hey everyone! If you`re wondering, to your left is a random song that I felt like recording, so if you want to check it out, go for it! :) Anyway, there has been quite a bit of stuff going on in my family`s life lately. Such things as T-bird and I doing drama (it`s been super fun and I encourage you all to come to the performances), everyone doing school, school, school, birthday parties, basketball practices/games, youth group and AWANA, and in a week from today T-bird and I will be attending the IGNITE conference with a bunch of awesome friends. But it seems all this was kind of put aside and forgotten when we got a call Monday night and were informed that my mom`s dad was in the active stages of dying. Scary thought. And not something we often like to think about and dwell on. After all, we would rather think ourselves invincible than what we really are: weak. The scariest thing of all about this phone call though was the state of my grandpa`s soul. It has been very apparent his whole life that he has not put his trust in Jesus. So, really, that was the most shaking thing to think that if my grandpa dies tonight without Jesus Christ as his mediator, he will face God`s wrath. Eternally. A word we will never fully grasp until we are experiencing it. But. There is still hope. While he still draws breath, and he does as of now, God is still able to save him. And while he is not audibly responding to most things, one thing that Mrs. Henn told me and T-bird the other day that I found so encouraging as I thought about it was that when our bodies are dying, the last thing to fade away is our hearing. Did our Creator not design it that way? So that even while living out his final days, God can still use vessels like us to speak truth to his ears? Wow. Our God is so good. Our God is so kind to even use us as ways to plant seeds in people`s lives. So, anyway, that`s kinda what`s been going on in our life. But God is always faithful. And He does all things well.


--Rye Bread

Just musing

Hello again readers. Before you begin to think that at last their computer is fixed and perhaps they will begin posting more regularly!, let me put those thoughts to rest by saying, no our computer is not fixed and, really, even if it was, the posts would still be anything but regular. :) But either way, here I am typing. Or tapping, that is, on the iPad. It seems that many things have been running through my mind lately, and I've felt a need to "blow off some steam" if you will. So, therefore, a blog post mainly for musing. For the past few months, it seems as if the brokenness of this world we live in has made itself more prominent to me. Not necessarily actually affecting myself, but affecting those around me, opening my eyes to it more and more. I've naturally always known as a good Christian kid that yes, the world is messed-up and yes we will suffer. But what happens when it's right around you? What about when it becomes reality rather than just something you've heard over and over? Well, for one, it certainly reminds me where my soul belongs. Not here. It also shows me that in the midst of trials and not-so-easy things, God still mercifully gives us glimpses of the beautiful things that He is doing. The One who is breaking the bones, also heals them. Not exactly the way that we humans normally think. Check out Psalm 51. And hopefully, these things will also cause us to run to our Father in the quiet place perhaps more than we would in normal conditions. They would cause us to "swim in the Word" as John Piper once put it.

I'm going to shift gears here for a second. If you guys could, I'd appreciate it if you would pray that my love for the Word would increase. That I would desire more to spend time "in the garden" with my Abba Father. I seem to be going through a season where I just feel cold and dead as far as my relationship with the Lord and without any desire to read the Word. I know you guys probably don't normally get prayer requests on blog posts, but I would really appreciate it if you, as my brothers and sisters in Christ, could pray for me in this way. Sorry that this has been such a seemingly depressing post, but it's just kinda what's on my heart right now. Thanks to all of you guys!! I really appreciate it.

--Rye Bread

It's okay! I am alive.

Hello dedicated readers. I am truly living and breathing and this post is basically just to let you all know. Our computer has been out of commission for quite awhile now, therefore the lack of blogging. But we hope to have it fixed soon, so, stay tuned. I will hopefully give a rundown of happenings-of-late and so forth. So, I apologize for not posting for a really long time (not that that's abnormal). At least I was desperate enough to blog on the iPad. Not my favorite thing to do. Anyway, more reading to come after our computer starts computing again. :) Thanks for reading my boring post.

--Rye Bread

5 weeks? Eeesh...

     Yeah it`s been about five weeks since my last post. Pretty sad I know. Just thought I`d let you all know I`m still alive and well. =) In the past few weeks, we have been up to things such as homeschool co-ops (learning about things like how to say the word "orange" properly, and how to come up with a fairy tale twist in 30 minutes. Yeah that`s what we homeschoolers do in school.), turning 16 (crazy, I know), basketball practices and games, Thanksgiving, my sister`s 19th birthday, air-soft wars, school, meeting my sister`s CollegePlus! friends, school, getting sick, Black Friday shopping with Oggie, Bugg, and Mrs. Henn (never did find any boots that I liked), school, and we went out to lunch at McDonald`s with three of the awesome Nobises yesterday with lots of awesomely awkward conversations and comments and laughing til our cheeks hurt. Sorry, if ever there was a really bad run-on sentence, that was it. But I kind of like run-on sentences. Anyway, overall it`s been a good few weeks. Although it did snow yesterday. I was kind of sad, but it`s ok, I guess. Enough rambling though. I would like to share a verse or two with you guys that I found to be rather awesome.

Check out Isaiah 57:15:
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite."

That`s so awesome. God, who inhabits eternity! God who is high and lifted up! God whose name is holy! He who dwells in the high and holy place and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit. He is all these amazing, incomprehensible things and yet He still dwells with the person of a lowly spirit. He still reaches down as our Father and revives us. He is so good!!

And I`ll just leave you with Isaiah 54:10, one of my favorite verses:
"For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

What an awesome promise! Hope you all have a great rest of the weekend!! :)


--Rye Bread