This is me...Bethany. Mostly I'm the one blabbing away on this and you don't hear much from Mike. This is a part of an email from him to another person with part of his thoughts which I love to hear and thought you might too. Enjoy...
The journey we've been on has been quite a ride, with God pulling, twisting, and stretching us in many ways. I liken it to the art of blacksmithing. The blacksmith takes a form of metal and sticks it in the fire embedded in the red hot coals until it reaches a point where the metal can be shaped with a hammer against an anvil. This process of sticking the metal in the fire and pounded with a hammer is repeated over and over again until the metal is shaped to the blacksmith's liking. In metallurgy, when metal is heated and pounded impurities tend to come to the surface and are easily flaked off the surface as scale when cooled. Another interesting thought is that the same metal that started the shaping process is still there, but now is structurally different at the metal grain level, and it's now a little more purified than before.
We do appreciate your prayers. Indeed, Praise the Lord!! One thing we've learned on our journey is to keep faith and God will take us where he wants us, and in the mean time make us the people he wants us to be (as long as we allow him to). That doesn't mean it will be an easy road, but the end result will honor God.
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