Category: The Hare Home
The (New) Day-to-Day
By Stacey Well the new theme to our lives right now is…humility. Not vey exotic or exciting being that we are living in France and all, but there is nothing more humbling then opening your mouth and not having any words come out. Unless perhaps it is more humbling to have a child stare at you mouth agape when all you said was ‘Bonjour’ (I mean, I didn’t think my pronunciation was thatbad). Or maybe it’s more humbling when you open your mouth and words do come out….but based on the expression of the person you are talking to, you…
Husbands: Be Thankful in the Promised Land
by Dave How is being a husband like living in the Promised Land? I do not think that is a question asked very often of the biblical text. And yet, when I was reading about the Promised Land a while back I was struck by some similarities. Take Joshua 24:13 for example, “I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.” So, in this passage God reminds his people that as they…
We’ve Arrived in France!
By Stacey Our new home Well we have arrived and are settled-ish here in Chambery, France. To those who have prayed for us, we really cannot thank you enough. We have relocated our family across the globe and, thanks to your prayers, the transition has been overall very smooth. Here are a couple highlights: I was in line to check-in at the Dallas airport and a man asked me where we were going. I told him that we are going to Cameroon to translate the Bible, but would be spending a year in France first. There was a long…
Will You Help Our Kids Remember You? Video Request
Hello Friends! Check out the countdown on the right side of the screen to see how long until we leave. As I am writing this it is about at 19 days!We were trying to think of ways to help our kids remember our friends and family as we head overseas. I was thinking it would be fun to have YOU upload a video onto YouTube that we could show our kids while we are in France and then Cameroon. So here is what you can do: Go to youtube.com If you are already logged into Google you will have to…
What is Childlike Faith?
A number of years ago I had a Sunday School teacher who was talking about saving faith. He said that Christianity was an adult religion and the faith that was required was an adult faith. In other words, Christian faith is an informed faith. It is faith that is informed with an understanding of sin as offense against God, a lack of saving ability in ourselves, and a turning away from sin and to Christ. These truths, he said, really cannot be grasped by children. The implication is probably as obvious to you as it is to me. I trusted…
“Your kids are going to have issues.”
Sometimes when we go on a walk we stop traffic. Seriously. People will slow their cars down and rubberneck with some misguided thought that staring is going to answer their questions. Two adults, four kids. Adults are Irish-looking, kids are African-looking. But just to mix it up even more, all of our kids appear to be the same age (and in reality are pretty close – two 3-year-olds and two 2-year-olds). Conversations only complicate matters: not only do we have 4 Ethiopians that are being raised by Americans, they are going to be raised in Cameroon, in a village, where…
Secret’s Out: Moms Don’t Have Super Powers
Most of us have had the experience when we were children. You are going to do something you shouldn’t, you check to make sure that no one is looking, and then immediately your mom calls out from the other room. “I told you that you can’t have cookies until after dinner.” How did she do that? You have already done an eyes-in-the-back-of-the-head check when you were hugging her. There’s nothing there, just hair. You’ve asked before, but Mom just raised her eyebrows at you. Like there is something she knows that you don’t. Finally, you kids out there, I have the…
4 Biblical Truths I Learned From My Kids
Someone at church told Stacey the other day that we should abandon the saying “Well, it’s not rocket science,” and replace it with, “Well, it’s not parenting.” That is because while I am sure that rocket science is really hard, I am all the more sure that parenting is way harder. Anyone agree? When we parent we are dealing with real people who have real souls. And there is no one that can influence our children like we can. And it is often so hard to know how to respond to every circumstance that we encounter with our kids. But…
My Kids, The Disciples, and I Have Failed
It has been a rough week with our kids. We seek to be diligent parents: teaching them the Word, disciplining them when they sin, calling them to repentance and faith, memorizing Scripture as a family, and lots of hugging and playing. And yet, their response is often sin: whining instead of being thankful, lying instead of being truthful, stealing instead of being generous. And to top it off, potty training has not being going all that well so in the midst of dealing with all of that I often find myself on my hands and knees scrubbing urine out of…
General Update on the Hare Family
Stacey is fast on the track of completing linguistics training. She is half way through her third session and will be done with school at the beginning of March. She is currently taking Phonology and Grammar which she could not find more exciting. There are few things that delight her soul like being handed a sheet of data from a language and being told to organize it and find patterns. Such nerdy pleasures have reaffirmed to us that she is called to be a Bible translator. And it makes me love her all the more! She really enjoys her professor…
