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Here are a few pictures from last week when Debra took Tad to the local Toys-R-Us play area.

Pictures

Jeff

(The rest of us have them also…..)

During our time in Turkey last November we read Joshua 4, the miraculous crossing of the Jordan. After the crossing, God told Joshua to have each tribe get a rock from the river and pile them up nearby. Then when their future generations asked about the big pile of rocks by the Jordan, they would be reminded of how God stopped the river from flowing so the tribes could cross.

In the same fashion, God has blessed us in numerous ways by leading us across Bahrain in our journey to Iran. I don’t think we can know if the blessings were miraculous but many of them were way beyond what I’m “used to”.

While we are happy to be moving to Iran, we thought it would be fitting to make our own monuments that will remind us of God’s provision. The Steeles came over one evening and each family filled a 10×13 inch picture box with mementos of our time here. Our monuments are a little more mobile than a pile of rocks thankfully so we will take them with us and hang them on the wall wherever we live in Iran.

In our box are things like:
-pictures of our friends
-various coins
-ticket stubs from trips to Iran
-duplicates of our local ID cards
-a little vial of sand from our villa
-the logo from our church bulletin
-Tad’s first ultrasound

Most of these things (if not all of them) are answers to the prayers you prayed for us over the past two and a half years. When we walk by our monument on the wall, we will remember this blessing as well.

Jeff

The times, they are a-changing.

I remember thinking “Man, I can’t wait until Tad can feed himself!”. Well, that day has arrived, mostly. For cleanliness sake, I still feed Tad breakfast but he is sitting at the table for the other two meals, doing the shoveling himself.

I also remember thinking that it will be cool when Tad can understand what I am saying and respond with words in a childishly intelligent manner. That too has come to pass. It was only one word but it was a correct (and probably not random) use of ‘raisins’. The question was “What are YOU eating?”.

I continue to be thankful to God that He has blessed us with Tad, I look forward to each new day and the Tadliness that it brings!

Jeff