Happy Happy Easter Easter

Today is Easter here in America.  Last year we were in Ukraine during the Easter holiday for both our countries.  The Ukrainian Easter date was a week off from the American Easter date, so we got to celebrate Easter twice!  Through the off chance meetings and connections while we were there, we ended up with a church family for our stay in Zhytomr so we got to do the whole Easter thing while we were 6,902 miles away from home, and had a wonderful day with our church family that is now on the other side of the world this year.

We still talk about our 47 day journey last year to bring K & M home and although the adoption process can have its stressful points, there were a lot of great memories from the trip.  It's funny how you can travel to the other side of the world and in a matter of weeks God provided us with all that we would need materially to complete our adoption, a church family and friends.  We still keep in touch with them and follow the weather (it is cold and buried in snow over there, so I'm not minding 81 degrees here in Texas today....).

While we didn't always understand the words being spoken (our translators were awesome but there is only so much they could capture and pass along....) but the heart for God that they had was awesome, and it showed in the way they lived their lives.  We were in a world that seemed totally different (different language, alphabet, currency, metric.....) and still cared for and welcomed.  Hopefully everyone will feel that way when they walk into a church or spend time with a Christian today.  It's not the talk, it's the walk.