Hi All, coming at you with another prayer update… we survived the polar vortex and have been enjoying temps that aren’t dangerous to go outside. It’s been an interesting few weeks, with having to cancel youth group a couple times due to weather and trying to work out who goes out when because one of our cars has winter tires and the other one has not great all seasons.
Besides the weather our main battle has been one of fatigue due to continued bad sleeping for us all. Rebecca bears the brunt of this though because when Raelyn wakes up in the middle of the night (medicine or not, even with lots of prayers) she only will go back to sleep if Rebecca takes her into another room to sleep on a different bed. Her last tooth is coming in but it’s been moving so slow I think that glaciers move faster! Also some of the time Raelyn is refusing to nap, we’ve had to remove all of the furniture from her room so she doesn’t climb on things and take everything out of her dressers. The situation is stressful for us, we know we’re not the only ones who have gone through this, it’s just really difficult! We desire prayers for rest, peace and unity, and for good sleep to finally come!
Speaking of sleep, we are going on a retreat soon for a leadership development class that we’ve been taking at our church. Raelyn will be staying with Grandparents for the weekend, so we ask for prayer for her sleeping at their house without us. Please Lord! We’d also love great sleep, even in a different place which usually makes it harder. Please pray for a nice time as we deepen relationships and Raelyn enjoys staying with Meme and Grandpa.
Going back a bit, my preaching went really well a couple weeks ago. The night before we had a big leak in our roof as snow was melting, thankfully we were able to get into the attic and remove the icicles and clear out soaked insulation, so that the damage to our living room ceiling wasn’t too bad. We felt it was a distraction from what I was doing the next day so we tried to not make too big of a deal of it. I think that the Lord did wonderful things through the sermon and am glad he gave me the words. One person afterwards told me that the sermon and some scriptures read by others during prayer time wove together a theme that she had been sensing from the Lord that week. She said she could see that I had a bright light shining through me while I was preaching, and thats really awesome. A few others were challenged to make some changes in order to deepen their relationship with Jesus. If you didn’t get a chance to hear it, you can listen to it here: Acts 19:8-20 Thanks so much for praying!
After that we went to Great Wolf Lodge for a couple days to try to relax after a busy start to the year. We really enjoyed it, it was our first time and Raelyn loved it a lot. I’ve attached some pictures at the end. It was relaxing except for bedtime and no naps of course, but it was fun enough to distract from that.
Looking ahead, not much is different from last time, it seems like a season of catching up and resting is needed though. Still trying to discern things for summer ministry and ministry direction in general, as well as if/when we might want to adopt another child, spring house projects, etc… lots on our minds. We’d appreciate prayer for all this, as well as for protection from the enemy’s attacks, for unity and the joy and peace of the Lord to reign in our hearts. Thanks so much!
Love,
Mark, Rebecca & Raelyn
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