Background

Why Shiphrah-Batach??

I originally created my blog to update family and friends when I served in the Philippines for 7 months, but it has progressed past that now to sharing the other adventures God has me on as well.

Thus, my blog name was chosen after my midwifery passion -- wanting it to be easy to remember, & not too complicated...

Unfortunately, my "ideal names" (ie. something to do with midwifery---my calling;  and Hope---my lifelong favorite word & adopted middle name) were all taken...so creativity was called on.

When Google Translate, which usually gives me great ideas, failed, I asked God, "What should I name it? I can't find anything that seems appropriate!!" and He prompted me to look on BLB's Greek & Hebrew Lexicon Concordance.

There I found Shiphrah, meaning beauty & grace (from Exodus 1) and Batach, meaning to trust, hope, etc.
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Life Update

5 months have passed since my last major update, and lots has happened. Namely, we welcomed baby #2 and #3 into our lives shortly after Chri...