Yesterday was the Queen’s birthday so Elphine made an Italian Apple Cake again. She had to double the recipe because of adding an awful lot of baking powder. Also Matt and I argued vehemently about how much sugar she should put in. This morning, as I lay wondering why anyone was up and what horror would arise should I open my eyes, Matt put my tea tray down next to me and said, ‘Remember the Bert and Ernie about the... Read more
Gladys wrote another poem last Sunday during Sunday School. At the very end she uses the word ‘submitted’ which we both struggled to find. She kept saying something like it and I didn’t understand what she was trying say, so I offered up several words and she picked ‘submitted’. Heaven By Gladys God saved his people.He saved the people of Israeland then he saved everyoneby dying on the cross. And they were safe from all the trouble there was in... Read more
oneI’m sitting in front of the computer watching a live stream of local Boston news waiting for them all to find the second Boston bomber. The babies are crashing around shouting at each other. Everyone else is asleep, except Matt and Alouicious who are at Bible Study. The anchorette is trying to figure out what would happen to send these two young men over the edge to commit such a desperate act. Seemed like the man next to her wanted... Read more
It is so good to be with you this evening.I am honored, may I even say, humbled, to have been asked.Won’t you join me first in prayer.Oh Lord Christ, give us your grace, tonight, and yourself. Make us to see you, first, and then to know you, and then to be changed to be like you. Amen.So, of course, the theme for tonight is Radical Humility, but my own title,or operating thesis isLetting Yourself Go For A Taste of Glory.... Read more
I’m studiously avoiding writing here because I’m supposed to be speaking at InterVarsity this Friday evening and all my mental space is taken up trying to put all those words together. I’m not clever enough to write in two kinds of ways at the same time. But I would love it if you’d pray for me–that I could say something interesting and sensible. And even more, go pray for Jen at Conversion Diary. She must be so exhausted and now... Read more
It is April, as some of you might have noticed, and I am sitting in my bed covered by two large quilts and holding a warm mug against my mouth waiting for it, my mouth, to slowly thaw, or whatever the word is. There are stupid ugly snow flakes dithering their way down out of the ugly gray sky. (I like to keep track of the weather, for future reference, so when my children look back at this moment they... Read more
If you’d like to follow along in the bible we’ll mainly be in John 18 and 19 but I’m going to quickly walk us through the events of Jesus’ trial and execution using all four accounts. So Jesus entered Jerusalem in triumph on Sunday and went straight to the Tempe to scope it out for the next day. On Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday he entered into serious conflict with the authorities and basically stirred the pot of conflict and... Read more
Holy Week is upon us! Yesterday we celebrated the Last Supper together in Sunday School. It means everyone taking the name of a disciple or hanger on (because we have more than exactly thirteen people in Sunday School–isn’t that great! This year I passed out names like Zaccheus and Nichodemus and, I won’t lie, a couple of women, like Mary and Salome. But I made my usual big speech about there not being any women there except maybe to serve... Read more
As I was lying face down on the couch yesterday listening to one child read Dinosaurs Before Dawn, giving a spelling test and checking over some math, I also watched a tiny bit of the new ABC Enthronment. I came in on it as the last lesson before the gospel was read and figured I’d had enough as the gifts from around the world were being laid on the altar– so essentially, I heard some hymns, saw the African dancing,... Read more
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