April SunFun
Prayers and Praises
We enjoyed lots of family activities, like skating and cabin camping, and walking the trampoline from my parents house to our house this month. There were some really beautiful spring days, and then lots of rainy days. I enjoyed my annual Velvet Ashes retreat. After Easter I kicked out all my plants because the weather said it wouldn’t go under 40 degrees…but the many days around 50 degrees have turned them a sickly green, and I really hope they pull through. I also planted a garden. They always say wait until Mother’s Day and those couple 70-80 degree days just make me so forgetful. The big house project was painting the fence and preping the garden, and it looks so lovely.
Big news for Caid: he is releasing an album!!! You are invited to the Album release party!
Interweb Reads:
Me stuff: It is hard, Teaching and Celebrating Passover with Kids, and Freedom For. I also updated my book, Check the Box: Conversations with our Kids about our Multicultural history and family (on sale for $3.99!)
Christian things: Lost Things (Marilyn R. Gardner), Perfect Love in an Age of Rage (Sannon Martin)
Immigration things: Catholic Bishops have made an Impossible choice about their refugee ministry , Community is what will get us through, The false promise of “Return and enjoy our freedom”, Kimar’s illegal deportation and imprisonment should concern us all (Neighbor Notes) We’re Republican and Christian. Trump is wrong to order these refugees to leave (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), The Missing Immigration Document: Where is the DHS Refugee Report? (Forbes), Without the rule of law, the law becomes subject to the ruler (Lauren Pinkston)
Missionary things: Can I trust God with my children? (Amy Medina), Could God be preparing TCKs to meet the Deepest needs of this Generation? (A Life Overseas), Watch for the Thing after the Thing (A Life Overseas), Re-entry and reverse Culture shock (Carried by Living Water), Goodbye Liturgy (A Life Overseas), The care I didn’t know I needed (A Life Overseas)