Category: Rambling Thoughts

Interesting post on the Anglopressy blog about the relevance of Jesus’ Gospel. How ironic that what people really mean by making it relevant is to take out the parts of the Gospel message that challenge and convict. We tell the story of Jesus coming to earth to “share God’s love” rather than relating what He really said, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). Love sure is a big part of the Bible’s message and evangelism should be driven by love. But we as Christians can’t pick and choose what parts of the message to deliver. It has to be the whole thing.

CDF sent out this email about the snow yesterday.

jModule was able to come home from work early & the 5 of us were able to play in the snow. Dixie, as you can tell, joined in the family picture just in time! She was attacked by snowballs from MD & CE as well! And jModule as sweet as he is & you all know how sweet he is–threw many snowballs my way. In fact, he ambushed me a couple of times. Now do you call that sweet???

Needless to say, we are enjoying this snow!!

Mushroom

Originally uploaded by jmodule

The girls found this cute mushroom in our yard this weekend. It so resembled the classic idea of a mushroom that I thought I should get a picture.

No, I don’t feel much older. In some ways I can recognize where I’ve grown older — matured to put it another way. But otherwise I really still feel as young as I always have.

I took the day off to go to Raleigh with the girls, where we had planned on hiking in Umstead Park. But instead it rained all day (which we did need), so we went downtown to the museum of science. We had a good time looking at insects, dinosaurs, and other animals. After the museum we went to Olive Garden for lunch.

We packed up most of CEF’s bottles last week and gave them to CDF’s sister to use. There was a sense of finality there: our baby was moving on, but also relief: no more washing day-old bottles. So my feelings are mixed. But one thought that has stuck with me is when they grow we experience new things and we don’t need to hold on to the past because what is next is good too.

As an amusing aside, emptying the dishwasher puts me in a thoughtful mood — a lot like mowing used to do. Don’t know why that is. 🙂

On occation I’ll find a quiz that is interesting, though most of the ones I get via email are just plain wrong. I was amused by the results of this one enough to save it.

Which File Extension are You?