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Sunday, February 22, 2009

CDBaby.com

In an effort to learn my new violin piece, I scoured the internet looking for a recording.  Several Google searches later, I found it the other day at this independent music retailer called CDbaby.com:


And this is what I received as a response to the order:

Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Sunday, February 22nd.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby.  We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year."  We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh...

And I just had to bust out laughing, wishing it were true....


Monday, February 16, 2009

Hysterical Woman at Airport



My daughters taught her well.


Monday, February 09, 2009

Adoption Step 2

Just a quick update.  We got accepted into the next stage of the adoption process.  We applied initially with the intent of adopting a toddler largely because of the cost of formula for newborns ($100-$300/ month).  But I discovered after a little research and talking with moms, Costco formula (a wholesale grocery store out where I live with their own line of products which include formula) and my ability to relactate (the blessedness of being a mammal...) can bring the cost for formula down to $18-$36 a month. 

The Christian adoption agency we have chosen has a primary mission of giving women contemplating abortions a better alternative for their baby.  Hence, most of their adoptees are newborns.  In doing this, I can feel like I am not only satisfying my desires to add to my brood but also giving a baby the chance for life, and not only to life, but to life in in a covenant home under the Lord.  The promises of Christ are yes and amen not to my natural born but also to those whom we adopt.  This one too shall receive the sign and seal of baptism as if he/she came from our own flesh.  What an amazing love of God!

Pray for the next stage:  fundraising. I we will be filling out hoards of applications to foundations (many are indeed available) which gives grants and interest free loans to people like us.  This will definitely add some delay to the process of adoption as we would need the money before we would be able to continue on in the process.  But it will be worth the wait. 

In tandem with fundraising will be our first orientation (8 hours in one day for R and I!) and our formal application.  Our initial application was simply a screening process.  Fortunately, that took less than a month to complete.  We will see how the rest of this year unravels.  Meanwhile, dreams of a newborn snuggling in my chest and cuddling in my arms continue to tug at my heart.  Baby, baby here I come! (--along with R, Sukipaki, Kikok and Sparkie, the dog...)  


By the way, can the baby please be edible like this one? 
courtesy of Google Photos


Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Ordination

You are cordially invited to share in the special event of R's ordination to the gospel ministry.

It will take place on Sunday, February 15th at 5:30PM at Ontario United Reformed Church.

A light dinner will follow.  Please visit Ontario URC website for directions.


Friday, January 23, 2009

Anticipation

Truth
Was real but clouded, unthinking, immense--
A love carnal, impulsive, lusting, intense.
Not controlled could it be but gratified;
For this desire was sin, not vilified.
The disparate exchange of sex for love
Seemed the worthy investment but it proved
At last much more than what both could afford.
For'n their concupiscence--spark, bang, a cord
Which held new life for the unexpected:
A disposable clump to be corrected.

Truth
Was there were other lovers unlike those
Who indulged in vices, their crises and chose
A life of false dreams, hopes and denials.
That there could be lovers despite trials
Who held to God's plan glorifying Him:
A ring, a wedding-- though not always prim.
These sinners not relying on their works,
Not proud of themselves, honest and shirked
Any self-righteousness and clung to the just,
Holy, and perfect Christ by whose blood must
Have secured their adoption unfabled
Because of a great God who enabled
Children of wrath, enslaved to the Liar,
Become vessels of grace, sons of the Father.

Yea though the lust-stricken lovers had erred
The mother did turn wrong to right with care.
For she chose not to end the life of such
An infant made by impulse, whim, and lust.
She had high'r, better, nobler hopes for him,
So that he would not lead a life so grim.
A father, mother, 2 sisters, he'd get--
A life in the church, in Christ and what's best.

These owning to their once sorry estate
Now, due to the new life the Lord creates,
Seek to commit now
With a gracious vow
Much like the Father's
Act of love: gather
A child in their arms
From despair, woe and harm.

Hasten O Lord time
That soon they may find
The child You've chosen
Whose heart, not frozen,
Is open to embrace
Their home and place.
The road is long, rough
And fearful and must
Require the Lord's
Strength, so they ought hoard
Prayer, strength and grace,
For through You they can
Face.




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