Kate

This morning as my handsome genius and I were trying to buy some more times to relax before another long day of driving, he handed Kate his iphone for a little entertainment. Minutes later she handed it back to him with all the apps completely rearranged. He panicked as all the main apps namely phone, internet etc were missing. In a frightened voice he said "Kate what did you do?" She said "I'm two."

P.s. Just in case you're worried…don't be. His phone is fine now. She had created a new page of apps and he found them.

My Cup Runneth Over!!!!

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

-James Boswell

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

-Martin Luther.

Quotables

Peter: "I think I'll spend a little time in the other room learning about science."

(studying an encyclopedia)

Anna: "I think I'll spend some time in here learning about TV."

Quotables

Peter to his now two year old sister as she hits him to get a toy....

"According to my calculations, fighting is not a good way."

"God chooses us less for our strengths than for our weaknesses, for they amplify our need for Him."

Sarah Young
"Jesus Calling"

Redemption Part II

You know that friends blog I keep referencing most recently in the Redemption post... Well she did it again. She's always posting stuff I chew on for weeks. I had to share this: the concept of redemption keeps blowing me away, such unbelievably good news. Thanks Jody.

“The big story really is actually being told through our little stories, and by sharing our lives, not just our sermons, we’re telling God’s story in as reverent and divine ways as it has ever been told. God’s story was told in Hebrew and Greek, and I believe that it’s also being told in whispers and paintings and blogs and around dinner tables all over the world.

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We dilute the beauty of the gospel story when we divorce it from our lives, our worlds, the words and images that God is writing now on our souls.

And let’s stop acting as if religious professionals are the only ones who have a right and a responsibility to tell God’s story. If you are a person of faith, it is your responsibility to tell God’s story, in every way you can, every form, every medium, every moment. Tell the stories of love and redemption and forgiveness every time you experience them. Tell the stories of reconciliation and surprise and new life everywhere you find them.

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And when we tell the truth about our lives—the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts—then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday school.”

(s. niequist)

Battles

‘Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heat of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.’

-B. Moore

Taken from a friend's blog. Who is going through quite a seasoning experience herself.

Earth's Crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes . . .

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

C.S. Lewis once said...

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations....There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal...it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit-- immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

A very convicting quote to read as a mother or even just as a human being in this fallen world. In which direction am I helping people lean today?

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-Abigail Adams