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Well, many moons have come and gone since I last posted in November, but lack of words has in no ways been the issue. As the pictures from the last couple of days indicate, much has happened in the world-o-Beecham in the past few months. After many years of prayers for children and most of all for God’s guidance for the path ahead, the answer came in the form of three children in late December. Elijah, Kiera, and Tessa - 3 of our Godchildren, and my wife’s 2nd cousins - came to live with us on December 23rd, 2007. There is quite a back-story to all of this happening, and if you’d like to hear it feel free to ask, but for the sake of brevity and confidentiality I’ll not post it here.
Our lives have been turned upside down to say the least. The kids are 10, 7, & 4 and are full of life, energy, love, and a lot of things to work through. They were all baptised and Chrismated two weeks before Pascha and there are no words that I have to fully express the joy that we felt on that day. I can only say that there were many tears and much gratitude to God for giving us our heart’s true desire. See this post for some history on how long we’ve been yearning for our Godchildren and their safety. The aforementioned post is just one small snippet of multiple visits from all three children over the past 6-7 years. Thank God for his mercy and faithfulness!
There are stories and stories, and I will tell some of them in posts already being written and hopefully published one by one over the next few weeks. It is incredible the multitude of reminders of God and His grace that show up in living with and often dealing with our children. I am constantly amazed at the lessons I’m learning,and painfully, the mirror of my own faults that are shown me in them. It is a journey, and there is joy and sorrow, living and learning - we’ll leave it at that.
Among all of this there has been Great Lent, Emmaus Retreat 2008, Pascha, Bright Monday, and Phil and Suzi’s wedding this past weekend. It’s been busy to be sure, and I’m glad it’s slowing down enough to reflect and write about it.
Finally, to top off the list of events, I turned 30 on Holy Saturday (Old Calendar) and another wish was granted - my wife surprised me with my very own scooter! Finally, Scooter Boy rides again! In Janna’s words, when I saw the scooter at the “reveal” this is apparently what happened; “He looked insanely happy, didn’t say a word, got on the scooter, started it and drove off.” It’s all a blur to me, but I do vaguely remember saying thank you, and then, yes, I was away. Thanks be to God for Honda and their little bundles of joy.
I’ll be posting more frequently as there is a wealth of material that I’d like to get down here, and as with the change in the look and feel of the blog, I’ll also be changing the way that I post. In the past couple of years I’ve only posted longer articles at long intervals. I plan to post on a fairly regular basis and hopefully have a good mix of shorter little thoughts as well as longer articles. We’ll see I suppose… 
Now it is time to “scoot” home for the boy’s 11th birthday party, cake, ice cream, Men’s Group, and then Prince Caspian tomorrow. What a weekend!
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Glory to God for all things!
