For Today… Monday, July 20 Outside my window….it’s sunny behind the clouds. And comfortably pleasant. I am thinking… about yesterday’s powerful sermons. In the morning we learned about forgiveness and forgivingness. In the evening we were encouraged to understand God’s judgement, mercy, compassion and that he reigns over our lives from on High – higher even…
My awesome friend Heather came to visit me over Memorial Day weekend. OK, so I was a collateral visit. She is starting a photography business and a friend of hers paid her (and for her) to fly to Ohio and stay with me in order to take some photographs. Yay! And I got free pictures…
During Sunday School, we are studying how the Old Testament and New Testament both testify to Jesus’ divinity. One way is that the writers of the New Testament talk about Jesus as the writers of the Old Testament talked about the one true God. Both parts of scripture use the term “all things” to describe…
We have continued to enjoy Robinson Crusoe together as a family. Well, most of us. One of the girls keeps asking when it will get exciting, so we try to explain it to her. I’ve been thinking about wonder in relationship to learning and loving and living a God fearing life recently and couldn’t pass…
For Today… Monday, June 29, 2015 … whoa, it’s been two months! Outside my window….it is grey, rainy, and cold at 59* F. I’d complain, but I see what those in the PNW are dealing with … I’ll take cold over too hot any day. I am thinking… about returning to regularly scheduled blogging *and* a…
There are gems to be found in a reading from Robinson Crusoe and they always surprise me and make me think. So often we think sin and affliction are inexorably tied together, one and the same. But Defoe cuts those lines so we see clearly that while our affliction may result from our sin, God’s…
So, I’ve been slacking a little bit with reading this book. Heather has posted on Chapter 5 & 6, here. I hadn’t posted on 6 yet. Neither of us posted on Chapter 7 last week. Then we decided to start doing two chapters a week. Huh. We’ll see how that works out for us. So,…