Dear friends,

Thank you for your prayers.  This week has been a week with family, which has meant the kids have cousins to run/play with all day long, which is a great joy for them and a break for me.  I have been able to get some quiet times - for prayer, journaling, and more naps that I care to admit.  It has been restful, though I realize how tired I am, that I am not more refreshed!

I have realized that with some of the decisions facing us, I need wisdom from above, and also I need the Lord to provide in ways that are beyond my current resources.  I am still seeking to find a good plan for Katie this spring.  I think I/we may need some place to process some things as a family, so can your pray for the Lord to provide pastoral counsel of some sort.  Pray for my own heart - I have started meditating on Psalm 40, and finding that while I affirm as true what it says about God, I find myself distrustful - I don't want to entrust myself to God in hope that he will set my feet again on a solid rock.  (I know that he HAS done that for me in Christ - and maybe that is the only way my feet are secure - but to believe in His goodness and plan for us going forward is where it is hard).  Wondering what He wants to do in my heart, not sure how to pursue Him in it.

Thanks friends.

Matt

Dear Friends,

I have been thinking for a while about how to continue to post some - because I have been so encouraged in the past three years, and particularly in the past two months, as I have been able to share with many of you from far away, many who I don't know how else to keep in touch with, and many whom I don't always get to share these kinds of things with.  Your prayers and encouragement have meant so much - and I find myself both needing that and missing a chance to connect with you as we had on caringbridge.  Caringbridge has been wonderful - but it feels like that is the place where we walked together the journey of Brandi's cancer, and now that she is with the Lord, a new chapter has begun for the three of us, and it seemed like a new place to share would be good.  So I have started this.  I am not really very good at some of the technical and aesthetic parts of this, but I hope it will serve. 

So here we go.  I will post something of substance soon, I just wanted to get this up there now.

Matt

If you have found this and want to find the caring bridge site and don't know of it, here it is:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/brandic