200th Post...an important request

This is our 200th post! Thanks for sticking with us if you're one of our faithful readers.

Today was Cate's big family birthday. We'll be posting pictures of it soon. For now, we have something very important to ask you.

Please pray for Abby. We happened upon Abby's blog when we were searching to see who ended up with the blog name we originally wanted. It turns out that the Riggs family on this blog (no relation to us that we know of), adopted Abby from Guatemala as an infant. This past summer she was diagnosed with Leukemia and is not doing too well right now. Please pray. You can check out her blog by clicking here.

Also, her dad, Brent Riggs, publishes a pretty cool online magazine. You can check it out by clicking here.

Thanks,
Eric and Melody

We Serve a Mighty God

I don't understand everything God ordains- and I'm not supposed to. I trust and have faith that it is all for his glory. But parts of this week were rough. Some friends from college are going through a tough time with their daughter. Please lift them up in prayer. A student on our team at school (I do not have her in class, but had her older sister when I was a student-teacher and her older brother a couple of years ago), was diagnosed this week with leukemia. She is the second student at the school where I teach to be battling cancer. The other student, also an 8th grader, was diagnosed over the summer. Please lift both students up as well. I've cried a lot for both situations this week and in certain moments I have been frustrated with God for allowing these things to happen. But in the words of Ginny Owens, "there's a bigger picture [I] can't see." God is good, that's all I know.
~Melody :-)