we encourage you to watch this video. so much of what it shows gives testimony to how we have felt about our time in Ethiopia. we have so much in america, don't get me wrong, i'm the girl that sang "God bless America" upon my return home, but we have to think everyday and tell ourselves the truth about where does joy come from? how do we find joy?

it can't be based on circumstance.... it can't! there just would be no hope to ever have joy.

our joy and hope is in the one who came to save us.... matt and amanda, the lost. Jesus came to earth and gave His life to show us how to know the Father. we don't have to have organized closets, obedient children, money in the bank, a wheat free diet, a dog that sits on command, or any other sign of success, we just have to trust that He is the one that saves us from our sin and gives us a future with Him for eternity.

that's joy!