What A Mighty God We Serve

As I sit to write this, gratefulness fills my heart. Looking back over the past year, so much has happened, and so much has changed. Personally, it has been one of the busiest seasons of my life. At the same time, it also feels like…

One Score

Greetings in the Name of the LORD! I pray we are learning to depend more and more on the Living God, the Fountain of Living Waters, the Rock of Ages, the Ancient of Days. Visiting Biana, Vanessa, Francisca and Jeremy with my sister's family I'll…

Harvest

Greetings in the Name of the One who Is and Was and Is to come, Jesus the Messiah, the Lamb of God. In my desire to follow Jesus and be obedient to His commands, it's funny how often I forget all that He suffered. In…

Love with an Open Hand

For the past four years I have been teaching high school math to various grade levels at NCAI. I had no prior classroom experience, but I had plenty of tutoring experience through all the different children who have been part of our ministry. Every year…

Newness of Life

I started this post at the beginning of December. Before I began to write, I took a deep breath and asked the LORD what to write on my blank page. Newness of Life came to mind immediately. It struck me as the title, though I…

Timeout

Happy Summer! Just like that, we're in the middle of July. Life keeps moving along and sometimes it's difficult to pause and take time out to breathe and reflect. Summer is great for that. We just got back from visiting family and friends in Pittsburgh…

New Arrival!

(Finally) announcing the birth of our precious baby girl! She was born February 7 at 9:59am weighing 6lbs 13oz. This time around Jessenia chose the names for Jadriel Abirahel Bain Arias. Jadriel (Jah-dree-el) means "God is my helper" in Hebrew, and Abirahel (Ah-beer-ah-el...don't pronounce the h) means…

Graduation Day

Bianca and Noel did it! It was such a joy to be able to celebrate with them and their families as they culminated their high school experience by walking across the stage and receiving their hard earned diplomas. I want to give you an idea…

A Village

Greetings in the Name of the Lord God, King of the universe, King of Glory, King over all. Reminding myself of who He IS brings a different level of assurance to my heart, and I hope it does for you as well. He truly is…

Summer Wrap Up

While the official end of Summer is still several weeks away, it essentially ended with July for us. But before we talk about the end, let's go back to Summer's beginning. Ready (sort of) for her first roller coaster Jeruahel missed most of the month…