Blog Schlog

Okay, so I stink at blogging. So maybe I will just post some photos. But not right now.

Feast or Famine

Some friends of ours invited my whole family and several other families out to dinner one evening, their treat. The occasion was that of thanks giving, not "Thanksgiving", but thanks giving. They had been humbled by God's provision for them and wanted to share their rejoicing in this with others. The idea to do this came to them in looking back to a time when friends feasted together in sharing their abundance. That feast compelled me to look back on God's abundance toward me, in some cases by taking things away.--I received more than a free meal that night.

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yeild no food, the flock be cut from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will take joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:17-19

Family

Judges

Studying the book of Judges. Seeing God's redemption of His people in their repetitive rejection of Him. --And so it is, as it has been.

The Year in Birthdays

Kinsley Madeline--1st Birthday in December

Kelton Lee--1o in January

Cambelle Elise--6 in February

Cason Ross--8 in March

Karis Abigail--5 in August

Clutter

I recently received a mailer from a Christian financial ministry. In one article a parallel was drawn between God destroying the earth in the flood and the need for Christians to clear clutter out of their lives. "Dump that valuable junk" claims the writer. --One of the earliest recollections of God's great redemption of mankind reduced to a lesson on house keeping.

Jeff and Shaira