His “crack” of a smile was the subtlest of reminders that everything was going to be okay. \u00a0We will shine bright again.<\/p>\n

Testing our marriage to the very brink of breaking has been the most powerful lesson the \u201ccrack house\u201d taught us \u2013 because in spite of satan\u2019s attempts to destroy us, we still found God faithful. We still knew, that anchored IN HIM, we were gonna be okay. \u00a0And just like our marriage, the “crack house” doesn’t look too shabby anymore:
\nSo now we wake up every day thankful for this new (to us) home, this new beginning, and new challenges.<\/p>\n

In the words of the wise Helen Keller, \u201cLife is a daring adventure, or nothing at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a spiritual heaviness in our upstairs back porch and all the praying people who walk through the place can feel it. Our college-aged sons who have done their share of watching \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d and have lived in plenty of sketchy neighborhoods quickly identified the telltale signs of a crack room: excessive amounts of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,13,14,18,25,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n