I’ve just manipulated my husband into making me a cup of warm milk.But I feel rather as though I deserve it (in so far as a Calvanistically bent Anglican can deserve anything), so flush am I with the extraordinary number of tasks I have accomplished in the course of the day. Amongst them was the taking of a long walk.I’ve taken a total of three real walks, not including this one, since we moved into this house and neighborhood. Of... Read more
The fog has burnt off and it looks to be a bright chilly day (don’t you just depend on these little Monday weather updates? Its like I’m stuck in a rut.)–not so much a day for actually tackling the basement but for apple picking or something. However, I will feel so bad about myself if I neglect the basement even one day more, I am going to blunt my ear to the siren song of good weather and do my... Read more
One Its been too long since I’ve posted this. Two The stinker Marigold the Menace slept, Two Nights In A Row, in a room by herself. Maybe the girls were waking her up. Practically liked her today, with all the sleep I got. Three Finished our lit book two weeks early because I wanted to see how it ended and just read it all myself out loud. Pretty good, the Boxcar Children. As usual, however, its disconcerting with these young... Read more
Actually neither to sleep, nor to dream. Lovely little Marigold is officially being renamed Marigold the Menace. She no longer sleeps. Well, she does take a good long nap in the morning while the rest of us study, but at night she is up constantly climbing into Elphine and Gladys’ bed and pulling their hair, biting them and, on occasion, pushing Gladys out. We have never hat this happen before and are stumped. So, after Matt wakes up from his... Read more
Various teams of Good Shepherdians are out mucking out peoples houses this afternoon. Actually, they’ve been at it all day. It seemed bad to me to lollygag around so we’ve done a fair bit of school (even though generally Monday we don’t do Anything) and I’ve spent a while ineffectually moving piles of laundry around. Outside the bright sun is, a la PG Wodehouse, ominously and meanly cheerful while so many suffer. Yesterday! though, we suspended all the human and... Read more
9. Bitter Water His thoughts said, As I journey, sometimes the water is bitter. His Father said, Let My loving Spirit lead thee forth into the land of righteousness. Do not ask Him whether He will lead thee to Marah or to Elim. Do not ask for the Elims of life. If thou must pass through Marah, fear not, for He will show thee a Tree, which, when thou shalt cast it into the waters, shall make the bitter waters... Read more
One It looks like over 20,000 have been evacuated as a result of the flood. The pictures are just amazing. Two Pray for people who have lost everything again after loosing everything a mere five years ago. Pray for people’s pets and chickens. In usual American fashion, I spent my midnight hours worrying about the animals, which is fine, but so western. Three I do really need to go face my own basement today. It looks like I have piles... Read more
And now the river is rising and rising. Two families came about 1am to spend the night in the church, having been told to evacuate to higher ground. I didn’t even hear Matt get up to let them in. Two days of school have wiped me out. (Rolling on the floor laughing hysterically.) Anyway, we have to dry out our own basement, and I need to step up my pace because my big enormous five year old turns out to... Read more
To celebrate the first day of school, we’re all sleeping past 7. And then we’re going to eat bacon and toast and fried eggs and put on fancy new school clothes. Well, Elphine is, because, would you believe it, when she discovered she could wear anything she wanted for this whole year of school, she made a beeline for the uniform department and picked out a blue scooter, a white blouse with a rounded collar (what are those called) and... Read more
Matthew 18 is one of those scripture references that Christians can easily toss at each other to reference something most all of us believe with our minds, but don’t necessarily rightly and truly practice with our hearts and actions—like Ephesians 5 or Exodus 20 or the whole book of Proverbs. In fact,even though we’re only going to look at verses 15 to 17, Matthew 18 holds some of the most difficult images, parables and pictures of what life really and... Read more
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