Hello all!
We would love to introduce ourselves.
We are the Smiths.
There are 7 of us.
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| This is us! Nik and Beka (the big people), Xander, Rachael-Ann, Silas, Jordan and Zoe (the little people). |
We have our hands full, we are outnumbered, we are busy and chaotic, and we love *almost* every minute of it. Not so much the 3am minutes. Or the throw the bowl of spaghetti as a form of social protest against pasta night minutes. But other than THOSE...
Our home base is beautiful, breathtaking North Idaho. We were blessed to be called up here by the Lord in March of 2014. Our wonderful kids are ages almost 7 (Jordan), 5 1/2 (Zoe), almost 4 (Xander), 2 1/2 (Silas) and 1 1/2 (Rachael-Ann... our "Native" Idahoan). For those of you keeping track, that's 5 kids under 7. They are a grand total of 53 months apart from first to last.
We have been married for almost 10 years (!!! What???) Nik works as a roller coaster mechanic for a local theme park and Beka is a stay at home ninja-mom ;)
This last year our family "mission" verse was SEEK:
"Seek the kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need."
-Matthew 6:33
My friends, ask and you shall receive. We have spent the last year on a crazy roller coaster of God revealing and pruning and revealing some more. We have started to learn what it means that God's ways are not our ways and God's plans are not our plans. Our eyes have been open to things we never knew existed. Our hearts have been touched (stabbed) by the hurt and injustice and need in the world and moved by the amazing gift that is God calling US (yes, US--- you, me, everyone) to be his hands and feet in loving the people His heart is after.
It is fitting that the verse the Lord has put on our hearts the past few months is Micah 6:8
"He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?"
Come along with us on our latest step in this thousand mile walk... I promise, it will be an adventure :)
