I am heading into an unpleasant day and I'm late and haven't been allowed caffeine of any kind. So here are some pictures which I ought to speak for themselves. Pretty: I felt that Matt would want me to have flowers this week so I bought some on his behalf. Thank goodness because it's been raining. Happy: my seeds are growing. No total destruction yet. Praying for them all the time. Funny: I forced ny Tueaday Tea Partner to drink... Read more
I'm stuck in the rut of always baking chicken on Tuesdays. I don't really mean to. Its just that I get to 2 o'clock every Tuesday and open the fridge and see the packet of bone in chicken thighs and know in my heart that Matt won't bother to cook them as he does so well–in sauce, he always cooks them in various delicious sauces–and then, sometimes in fits of anger, but more usually in a distracted way, I mash... Read more
Day Sixteen Ruth 1:16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” Three women stand bereft in... Read more
Two kids were up most of the night being unpleasantly unwell. And I, stupidly, lay awake the rest of the hours waiting for others to succumb. But it didn't happen. So basicslly I wasted the small amount of sleep I could have had anticipating bad things that didn't happen. Grateful, of course, that they didn't happen. Irritated with myself. Tired. Hoping we get some useful things done today. Moodily unhappy that God prefers our weakness so that we never get... Read more
I just looked at the Calender and discovered I've signed up to take the two little girls to the dentist (what was I thinking? At the same time? What is wrong with me?) and that Alouicious is supposed to play baseball at the impossible and ridiculous hour of seven thirty At Night. “Under the Big Lights” said the coach with relish and joy. In the Freezing Cold is more like it, I say with horror and hissing. Matt will have... Read more
Day Fourteen Judges 6:27 So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night. Salvation belongs to The Lord. Salvation from running after false, wrong, inadequate, brutal gods that sit there as lumps of clay and wood. They have to be torn down, pushed over. Their presence is a... Read more
I've been meaning to post about the new amazing classrooms at church for quite a long time but one, Easter caught up with me, two, I haven't been able to get so good picture of the hallway, and three, the first Sunday that we were able to be in them, we had rather a lot of children we had never seen before (well, they had been seen before because of the tireless devotion and work of our Outreach Coordinator, but... Read more
I have a lot of stuff to do today and laying around here choosing words out of a hat and shoving them into meaningful lines in order, as usual, is not even on the list. I've undertaken, probably stupidly, to go through every item in the house again (I know I seem to be doing this all the time) and throw absolutely everything, EVERYTHING, I say waving my hands, away that we don't use and don't need and Don't Play... Read more
Day Thirteen Judges 4:21 But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. Some days my tent is swept and put in order, my vat of warm milk ready for anyone who needs a drink. I would be happy to loll... Read more
Yesterday was very fine. Sunny, if way too cold. I puttered around outside and then spent the rest if the day hysterically texting and making curriculum lists and counting days and weeks and quarters and then texting some more. But the rain is rolling in again and I have some unpleasant tasks to attend to today and everyone seems fractious, so that's too bad. And King David, of the Bible, just numbered the people. In Samuel it says that God... Read more
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