For 2017, our family’s word was “surrender.”  

For so long, we’d been living a life that was all about us.

Our plans.

Our dreams. 

Our vision of what family and future should look like. 

Our time, energy and finances were mostly used to fulfill our own desires, and although we gave some time and some money and some thoughts to the needs of others (mostly people we knew and loved), most of our most precious investments were inward.

And then God asked us to surrender it all.