Sidewalk Chalk Phillip!

Phillip has the CUTEST cousins in the world!

Frisbee Golf Phillip!

Phillip's cousins can't wait to meet him!

Thai Food Phillip

The lovely Croft ladies displaying a culinary masterpiece: Phillip in carrot slices!

Fingerprints!

Hey Friends,

We have had a little delay on Mom and Dad's fingerprinting results and need them to come in soon! Could you pray with us that they would be expedited so we can finish up our home study ASAP!

THANK YOU for PARTNERING with us in PRAYER.

Brit :)

Through the Eyes of a Window Washer

           So I’m a window washer now. A genuine, squeegee-wielding, ladder-climbing, bird poop scrubbing polisher of panes. It’s a great job, really. The work is light, the customers are well…nice, and every day I learn a new facet of window washing. As with any job, there are a million little lessons that you have to learn the hard way the first time. So far I’ve learned to NEVER wear my shoes inside someone’s house. Drain your squeegee handles BEFORE carrying them over carpet. Don’t reef on window screens. They rip. Easily. Always keep your belly button pointed between the legs of the ladder unless you want to find it plummeting toward the ground real quick like. My extremely conscientious employer has spared me from learning most of these lessons the hard way (although I have ripped a few screens). But one of the MOST important (and fantastically allegorical) lessons I have learned is this: when inspecting a window for flaws or mistakes, the best thing to do is to look UP and into the LIGHT.

            Up into the light. That’s the only way to see what you need to fix. When you look down into the dark, bug spots and towel streaks virtually disappear. They are invisible against the darkness below you, but they are outlined clearly when you catch them in the reflection of the light above you. Up into the light is exactly where our family is learning to train our eyes. Like any family, we’ve got a few greasy smears on our windows that we’re trying to buff out. So far, we’re discovering that when we drop our eyes and look down at the monumental task of adoption, we can’t see clearly. We miss things when our eyes fall from the light at the top of the pane to the dark space below. The light is essential too. I suppose you’ve figured out by now that light has a spiritual counterpart, the light of God’s truth. John 3:21 says, “But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” As we get ready to bring Phillip home, we want to look UP to our Heavenly Father and into the LIGHT of His truth. We want to see the ways that He desires to change us and make us new. We’re not perfect, nor will we ever be. When Phillip gets home, we’ll still have some smudges and scrapes on our windows (maybe even a few ripped screens, haha), but by God’s grace all of our necks will be incredibly sore from our constantly straining to look UP and INTO His LIGHT. 

~ Kyle