Ezra's 11th birthday present!

This morning at 4 a.m., our time, we received a call from our son Jim that he and Sarah were heading for the hospital to have the baby! When Ezra woke up, and we had all wished him a Happy Birthday, we enjoyed informing him that probably he would become an uncle today. And he did, as did Stephen! When Jim called us around 4 p.m. to tell us about the birth of Hezekiah Immanuel Miller (Kiah) the boys were jumping around yelling, "I'm an uncle!!"

Well, we are grandparents!!! we haven't been yelling it but we are enjoying the delightful thoughts of what that will mean for our lives. Kiah was born via c-section at 10:53 a.m. colorado time (12:53 our time) and weighed 8'13". He is 21 incles long and is recovering from a rather difficult time in the birth canal. Jim said his face is a little bruised and the back of his head is a little mushy but the dr. said in two days he should be fine. We praise the Lord for his birth and for the safety given to sarah and the baby. also, sarah's mom arrived safely on the airplane today and after a shuttle ride from denver to colorado springs some of jim's friends from church took her to the hospital. so she is with jim and sarah and kiah for a week or two. we praise the Lord that she could go.

as to ezra's 11th birthday, we had a lovely day of letting him spend some birthday money he had gotten and going to my old restaurant for lunch. it was good to see my friends from work and the food was yummy.

Goodnight to all for now. We are praying for a good night's sleep for jim, sarah and our new little grandson.

A Divine Appointment!

Last week our pastor preached about divine appointments. A divine appointment is an occurance in our life that is specifically set up by God. Yes, of course our whole life is set up by God, but these are situations that we can't help but see that God made it happen. no luck or coincidence about it, it is a God thing!!!

Well, this morning David and I went our for our Saturday morning breakfast date. We went to a totally different place than we normally do. As we were being seated we got the treat of seeing one of David's cousins whom we love but don't see very often. That was a blessing in itself! Then we sat down, ordered and began to chat and enjoy our fellowship time. Soon we noticed that there was a group of 4 men near us who were discussing the things of the Lord. They were talking about some principles in God's Word and seemed to be really genuine in their christian speech and behaviour. We thought maybe they were all pastors or a pastor discipling some other men. When we got up to go, David went over, introduced himself and told them how we had been blessed by their conversation. I am not sure if they asked if he is a pastor or what , but he told them that we are going to Africa as missionaries. They all registered surprise and one of them said, "Do you know who we are and why we are here today!? We are all businessmen. Two of us drove almost 200 miles and one came from Indiana to meet today for the express purpose of discussing what we believe the Lord would have us do in supporting people just like you! " They went on to tell us that the Lord has blessed them all financially and they want to be funnels for His money to make sure it gets to the people that are serving Him. We were all very aware that this was indeed a God thing! We fellowshipped with them for about 15 minutes. They asked for our business card and missions card and also for some info about Elim Fellowship. We gave them a couple leadership names at Elim so they can see about plugging in there somehow. What a joy it was. They were so encouraging. We have praised the Lord all day for bringing us together.

(If any of you precious brothers who were part of that meeting come to our blog and read this, we realized after we left that we didn't think to get any business cards from any of you! :>) We would love to stay in touch if you so desire. The Lord bless you as you seek to serve Him!)

Blessings to our blog readers!

love,
Rebecca