Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.
I love to read church marquees. Some funny, some thought provoking, some not so much. This one was just funny. I have been thinking about fitting in lately and it just seemed to ‘fit’ with my thoughts on it. We all come to the Lord with our dysfunction and He makes something beautiful out of it all.
I have even thought wouldnt it be great if someone made a coffee table book of them? There goes another million dollar idea.. Maybe only I would buy something like that, who knows.
Its Monday. Ernie’s mini vacation is over and we miss him. He took off Wednesday - Friday last week and we had a lot of fun together. Friday we went to Fall Creek Falls for the day, let the kids swim and went for a hike. Ernie and I must be getting older-he hurt his neck diving into the pool with the boys and I fell during the hike down the falls. My ankle is still swollen, could have been sprained but I thanked God all day-could have been much worse. So we came home a bit sore and wounded.
During my sitting by the pool watching them play, I finished Mosaic by Amy Grant. It was a really good book, I wish more people would write their stories like that. Great for those of us with short attention spans, or with kids. 
I loved a few lines in particular. One about Salt Water. Not much salt water cant cure, whether its the atlantic, pacific or a bucket of tears. Thought that was so good.
So, time off was great but laundry calls. Have a good Monday. Pics are up on flickr from fall creek falls.
We just got home from Elkton, Ky. Ernie, I and the boys went with Sean Claude Van Damme. (lol my new name for Sean and Claude..) It was good, Bro Tim Hughes is someone we love to be with in service. Rees testified! lol im not kidding, the kids all went up front and said little things they learned and testified and someone gave rees a mic. Everyone knows he is 3 now in Elkton. The kids were real active in the service, they have been making them a big part of Thursday night services which was very cool. One of the best parts about visiting churches is driving with friends to and from. We were talking about this scripture.
2Co 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2Co 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Then we started to talk about that verse 17. It made me think of Bro Wilkinsons talk at the convention center about grace last year. When we pile on the scale, responding to grace, the grace side just goes down even further. By the very definition of Grace, we could never balance it out.
So, these light afflictions, whatever they may be (Pauls mind you, were much worse than any of ours here) could never tip the scale to be balanced with the eternal weight of glory on the other end of the scale.
It just made me really think of what this life could throw at me and gave me another view. Our lives are a scale. One side is our life now and one side is the real life that will begin someday when we leave here. The scale never even moves no matter how much we face or how old we grow. Never even moves. The weight of glory cannot be balanced with anything we see or feel in this life. Nothing in this life has the power (or weight) to tip the scale..
Then I thought of Eternity. The best most euphoric, comforting, happiest, best mood, burden-less day we could EVER have or imagine doesnt even tip the scale either. Its going to be better than any of that!! We dont even have a clue, we cant even begin to understand how wonderful it will be. Our vocabulary doesnt have words for it. Our minds cant even go there.
I feel like I got a glimpse of a revelation tonight.
Just now.
In the car on the way home from a little town in Kentucky.
..God is way too good to me.
I had to share this message. Looking around to play something while I cleaned, this came on. I have yet to find more solid, biblical based teaching on raising children and the home than Denny Kenaston. Teaching that stirs my holy ghost. You could describe this message as this.. “If your cup is full, it will overflow.. onto your children.” It is 41 minutes, 35 seconds. But so worth it. so good and so worth it.
I havent been blogging lately. Its been a busy week! Tina came in town to visit for the 4th which was fun to spend time with her. Although she got to see what my boring life entails. Knitting, movies and pajamas mostly. oh ya, and Goodwill. Forget about doing anything when you are with me on a half price day. We had Shea from Sikeston in town too, he stayed with us, my boys love him. We all went to Bowling Green for church Saturday night and it was a great service. (as usual!) I know i say it every time we go, but man, i love those people! I got particularly blessed when they sang “lean on me.” Plus, if you go to Bowling Green you HAVE to go to this mexican restaurant, its across from TJMAXX I forgot what it was called but its so good. Its gourmet and the guacamole/salsa is incredible. We ate there Saturday and Im still full from it.
Sunday was great too, and Sunday night we got to play the first game of volleyball of the year for me. I am so rusty but it is so much fun. Its now Tuesday and I swear my feet are still tinged by that dirt, its so hard to get off!
Tina’s camera has all the pics from the weekend on it so when I get them I will post some. The slip and slide was so fun at the park, the kids were so cute on it.
I found these links below and thought I would post them some ideas are really cool and we’ll be using them.
This link, you can send your old shoes to Africa to children who run, or are athletes in training that have no shoes.
http://www.shoe4africa.org/donate.html
The Lions Club- you can donate your old eyeglasses to this organization. I know this works- when I used to work at an eye doctors office, low income people would come in with vouchers for free exams/glasses. I know of at least 5 pairs I have right now that need to be donated!
http://www.givethegiftofsight.com/donatenow/donateusedeyewear/
This place you can send your old ‘Technotrash’ I know we have 3 boxes of this stuff in the garage that needs to be sent. You cant just throw computer parts/etc in the trash this place has a good recycling program. I will be looking into this one for sure.
This company has a good thing going. Toothbrushes, disposable razors, cartridges, tongue cleaners and flossers too. If you save them, send them in they will recycle them. Actually more than just that. They have a partnership with Stonyfield Organic Farms and will use all recycled plastic from their facilities, turning them into recycled (plastic toothbrush handles) toothbrushes! How very cool. You send them your old junk too and it all goes into making these toothbrushes. Keeping all that plastic out of landfills. I think I threw away 3 toothbrushes just this week. Their toothbrushes are cheap too so you can send them your old ones and buy new ones from them- Also, they send you postage paid packing slips for your old stuff. How easy. Click on recycling information at the top right. Target sells their stuff so does Whole foods.
http://www.recycline.com/index.html
Anyways, hope everyone has a good day. Ernie took the rest of the week off!! We are so excited. To have time off and not have anything planned! Be back later with pics hopefully of some finished projects!
