One–I should try to be a less self focused person I promised myself last night that I would leap out of bed this morning and run around cleaning the house because the bank will be here in a few short hours to appraise the whole property for some reason or other. Its the bank and the property so it probably has to do with money and us either giving that money to them or them giving us some because we... Read more
Day Twenty-five 2 Samuel 12:14 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, 'Who knows whether The Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?' But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.” That is always the question, “who knows whether The Lord will be gracious to me?” We ask it... Read more
Have been steadily blogging for weeks and weeks and then yesterday, for no good reason at all, just wasn’t able to post. Probably God was trying to show me that I am not “all that”. You know, how you can go along in the wreckage of your house and plans and think, well, I didn’t do laundry or email that person back or get to that appointment on time or get that list made for church, But At Least I... Read more
So we really did go to Frog Pond. And being that we live in a fading metropolis that is really more the size of a small town but retains the idea of being a city, in that we are on a busy road and share a yard with a large brick church, we don't think of ourselves as knowing anything about the countryside and certainly not anything about farming. I am always being tempted to gather to myself a chicken... Read more
Day Twenty-four 2 Samuel 9:13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet. David is established in Jerusalem. The Lord has built for him a house and a name and he has a moment of rest from all his enemies that surround him. And so, because The Lord had fulfilled all his promises, David looks to keep one of his own. Jonathan, whose soul David loved, whose... Read more
I should be folding laundry and important stuff like that, but I thought I would first fling some words onto the interwebs in, as it were, a great effort to waste time and not do that which I ought to do. As usual we've had another very busy weekend. The whole of it was largerly me slopping paint onto the walls of the parish hall, along with two other very dedicated and self sacrficing people, and also, at the end,... Read more
One Grateful to be coming to the end of a long week in which it seemed awfully like the whole of everything was spinning out of my grasp. Wasn't sure I'd make it through with reality in tact. Spent a lot of time ignoring the laundry and checking over my plants every few minutes. Two Of all the things doing well, my cabbages are foremost among them. Tragically, however the tiny maiden pinks have perished. It's not that I don't... Read more
We don't get out much but last Friday we were very lucky….sorry, I mean blessed, what with being Christian and all (doesn't it feel sort of pretentious to say “blessed”, we're so blessed…maybe I mean awkward and not pretentious. Christians are so weird.) to leave the kids with a sitter and go out to dinner. We are always in time for the early bird special, all the normal young people arriving as we are leaving. Anyway, we managed to stay... Read more
I know I've blogged a lot about Marigold and her unfolding life in Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, but every week there seems to be some new interesting revelation to me. All my kids have started out in the atrium at age three, some actually at two and a half, and their faith in Jesus has been clearly markable and obvious from those first three years in that level. Elphine, for instance, so internalized the concepts–Jesus is the Good Shepherd,... Read more
The internet is down so I don’t know if or when I shall be able to post, but I thought I would write anyway, just in case there was a chance. All the children are covered in marshmallow and chocolate from the riotous party of yesterday. I will have to shove them through the shower and soak their hair, Gak. Anyway, I have a variety of things I want to post about but the absence of the internet has discombobulated... Read more
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