Levi Benkert's Blog, page 9

Sometimes…

I just had one of those moments today where I realized… Oh shoot, it has been forever since we wrote on the blog!    So sorry, life seems to keep going and we forget to sit down and write to catch up with you all. First off I just want to say thank you for … Read More

Did you adopt a child from Ethiopia?

This here, this post that I am about to write, this is one of my favorite things I get to do as a husband.  I get to brag on my wife. This girl the one that I married 15 years ago, the one who is beautiful and smart and gets me like no one else … Read More

Help put clothes on some kids who need them

Hey all,   I hope you are well.   We’ve been busy around here, our kids are now in school which is a big change from the homeschooling life we had for so long in Ethiopia, but its good.   Thankful for all that our kids to be involved in.   Anyhow, I am actually … Read More

A day of fun!

With school starting this week we wanted to give our kids a break and a chance to relax and have some fun. Instead of going on and on about how neat this was for the kids to get to enjoy their day at the lake, let me just share some pictures instead.

GOD. IS. GOOD.

Ok, so do you remember when a few weeks ago we wrote on here how we were on our knees asking God for a miracle?   A little while later a friend of ours named Brian wrote and reminded us of the story of George Mueller, if you have not heard this story before you really … Read More

The top 9 choices to live a happy life. Tips from a former missionary adjusting back to America

It has been four months since we moved, and surprisingly after only 156 trips to Target to pickup that “one last thing we forgot” life is starting to feel normal here. Different for sure, like way-way-way different from our life in Ethiopia, but its good, and in many ways just what our family needs right … Read More

The top 9 tips to live a happy life. Tips from a former missionary adjusting back to America

It has been four months since we moved, and surprisingly after only 156 trips to Target to pickup that “one last thing we forgot” life is starting to feel normal here. Different for sure, like way-way-way different from our life in Ethiopia, but its good, and in many ways just what our family needs right … Read More

Praying for Bring Love In

One of the most important parts of our walk with God, yet one of the things I forget to do the most is to stop and pray.  To reach out to God and just lay at his feet the things that should be his and not ours to solve and worry about. We wanted to … Read More

On well worn knees

We are still in the middle of the painful process as a family of church hunting.  Doing that lonely load up into our car each Sunday morning and heading off to a different church and dropping our kids off with a different room full of people who they have never met.    I’ve only got one … Read More

Sometimes you just have to cry out to God!

This is hard to write.   Not like hard because its some crazy news about something going wrong, although I have had to do that before many times in my life.  This here that I have to write is hard because it hurts, hits a raw nerve, makes me squirm in my seat, and makes all … Read More