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Rainbows and drool May 28, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — hokiecaryn @ 5:10 pm

Scott, Josiah, RainbowOne thing I love about Florida is our beautiful skies and frequent rainbows.  Hawaii may have more but we sure have our share. I’ve enjoyed more in the 6 years here than I remember seeing in my lifetime before.  Anyway, yesterday, we went for a nice walk after a dramatic rain storm, and it was before sunset, so the sun still was shining on the clouds and the rain and made a rainbow.  We saw a hint of one the other day, but this we’ll consider baby’s first rainbow! :)

Oh, the photo left Scott & Josiah a little dark because I haven’t used my fancy camera in a while and forgot how to manipulate when taking to capture this image better.  But, playing with it some in the editing software, I feel like it came out kind of cool, stylized a bit.

We’ll hope this rainbow means promise of new days ahead and maybe a turn from the difficult days we’ve had the past couple of weeks.

In other news, we’re drooling up a storm (well, Josiah is), and as we had some playtime this image was captured and I felt it had to be shown to the world.  And just a cute headshot — this is my favorite Josiah face, his little half-smile. I have a feeling that’s going to get someone into trouble or out of it in the future!

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Being a Mom May 24, 2009

Filed under: family,Parenthood — hokiecaryn @ 9:24 am
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I realized that this past week included my first “mommy” event as a mommy, not counting my baby shower.  I attended a Mom’s 100_6555time at a church nearby where several of our friends go.  It is a great program and these older moms in the church body have such a wonderful heart to help encourage younger moms through this ministry.  I was highly encouraged to be a part of it.  Of course, Josiah was kind of uncooperative the day before, and was questionable that morning. I had packed the car, and Josiah was screaming his head off at this point. I almost didn’t go.

But my sweet friend called me to say that it was fine if I came late.  I was determined then to go ahead.  I got there late, and it was their last meeting of this year (they kind of go on a school calendar) and I didn’t really get a ton from the teaching exactly, slightly distracted feeding and taking care of the spit up of my little one.  But, it was just encouraging to be in a room of moms.  The speaker was talking about how she didn’t wake up every day wanting to do all the things before her; that some of it was responsibility and where we needed to seek after God for the endurance and patience to push through laundry, meal planning, tight budgets, crying kids, etc.  And how we need each other in this.

It was also nice to look around the room and see a great collection of moms.  Some had several children, some were just pregnant with their first.  Some moms were older with young children; some younger with older children, some older with older children!  Some with 7 kids, one married off already.  And several of us with our first.  It’s nice to feel “normal” and see so many others trying to find sanity and community amidst busyness.

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Born Into Brothels May 4, 2009

Filed under: books, music, media,faith,family — Scott @ 9:13 pm
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The children of the brothel

The children of the brothel

This movie has been on my netflix queue for about a year. I’ve wanted to watch it since I heard of it, but somehow it never felt like a good time to watch.

But really, when would be a “good” time to watch a documentary about children born into brothels in the slums of Calcutta, India? So I finally watched it this evening. And sobbed my way through it.

An American photographer in India became interested in the plight of women and children in the red light district of Calcutta and decided to live among them. The brothels are full of children, and she began handing out cameras and teaching the children to take photographs. The documentary is the story of these children, their pictures, and their lives in the brothels.

It’s quite jarring at first, peering into the hard lives of the children. It’s shocking to see the conditions in which they live, the awkwardness of these little ones in the midst of the sex trade. And yet it is somehow fitting to see the results of prostitution through their eyes. After all, sex is kind of about children.

Isn’t it?

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. (Genesis 1:27-28;2:24)

I felt the truth of this passage as I came to know the children through the camera’s lens. I came to know them, not as the outcasts of society, not as the children of prostitutes, not as a failure of contraception, but as human beings, created in God’s own image. Children whose lives are precious in His sight. I came to love and care for them.

By the way, the Sonagachi district alone is estimated to have around 10,000 sex workers and who knows how many children (whether they are working or not).

This movie is strong medicine, a view of lust from the other side. For some reason, God’s most precious gifts are those we abuse the most and use to destroy one another.

I mean sex. But I also mean the children.

May God have mercy on us, and may His just reign soon come on earth as it is in heaven.

 

New Photos May 4, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — hokiecaryn @ 2:47 pm

Here are some new pics. I’m a week or so behind, but it’s something!

Josiah’s here: out and about on the town at the Farmer’s Market, with his Uncle Chris and playing and posing.

 

 
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