Thank you....thank you

This was a typical day for the first 2 weeks we where here, and part of an email we sent out.

Jeff gets up early and spends two hours in the prayer room, then I go for one and a half to two hours. Then, we have lunch all together and Jeff goes to class from 12-3. While he is away we have nap time and school or a field trip ( we have been to a bunch of amazing places already... i am racking up school days - haha!). Then, sometime between 3 and midnight, we each go for 2 hours, and usually some of that time is as a family. M-F we try to spend at least 1 hour as a family in the prayer room, but the older ones go a lil bit more than the twins.

It has been amazing- to have such a visual cloud of witnesses around us... they are usually not so visual on a day in day out basis. The prayer room always has some music being played/sung and most people who are not on a worship team are praying to themselves or reading their bibles. Sometimes I feel like I am just soaking or marinating as Jeff calls it. At those times, I am usually more passive, listening, being still, or just focusing on Christ. Other times, the LORD lays things, places, people, etc. on my heart to pray for/about. And other times I am agreeing with whatever they are praying or singing about. Some times it is very intense, actually. God has had Jeff and I both praying a lot for Shades Valley and Birmingham. We know that is what he has for us for our work for this season, so we think of home and our people often. My most recurring prayer is that we would just fall in love over and over with him- that we would know ALL dimensions of his love... width,length,height,depth...

Anyway, I could go on and on....

So, life is changing a bit now. Some people from Birmingham are here and we are getting to see some other aspects of ministry here in Kansas City. Tonight (actually a week ago now) Jeff went to a prayer room downtown called the Boiler Room, which is smaller but built more around community. We are going to be spending the next few weeks learning more about this ministry and about a ministry in Tampa that is also community based. Please pray for wisdom and discernment for us, that we would be able to glean whatever he has for us from what will be offered over the next few weeks (this is over what we already do at IHOP).

Anyway, more later. We love all of you and are incredibly humbled to be able to "come away" with the LORD in this way. I still can't believe it- it is such a good gift. But, of course... our Daddy does give good gifts... "every good and perfect gift" comes down from HIM!!