Open House, Open Heart...

I feel slightly uncomfortable writing this. I'm not entirely sure why. I guess writing about someone elses despair is not exactly easy. I want to write a little bit about what I've seen, and what its taught me in this short time here in Mexico. First I want to start with a quote from my book I'm reading, "Radical" by David Platt. "God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on earth." Read that a few times through. Sometimes I wonder why I was born in one of the most blessed countries in the world. I grew up in comfortable settings, always had food, shelter and was taught about Jesus from a fairly young age. I had my rough spots but nothing too terrible. For the first time ever, when reading that quote, I realized that by grace I was born in the United States. If you ask me its an extravagant amount of grace but thats just my opinion. What I do with that grace is my choice. God gave it ...

This has been such a crazy couple days. You guys, I made it to Mexico. Can you even believe it? If you kept up with my multiple Facebook posts then you probably already know about our multiple delays, missed flights and slumber party in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  If not then I'll do a quick recap. We left San Jose Saturday morning 1 am. Flew to FL and were unable to make it through customs and security in time to catch our next flight out to Detroit. We tried talking to the airline to figure out our options. They told us the next flight to San Diego wasn't until Monday morning. As you can imagine my heart was so overwhelmed in the moment. Standing there 6 months pregnant with my exhausted almost 1 year old I whispered to God how overwhelmed I felt. We tried seeing of we could Atleast get a flight out of Florida to a place where we have family so we could wait till Monday there. 2 days at a hotel with no transpiration, no luggage and not a ton of extra spending money was not so...