Show me the path where I should walk, O Lord
To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. I trust in You, my God! Show me the path where I should walk, O Lord Point out the right road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me for You are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in You. Remember O Lord your unfailing love and compassion which you have shown from long ages past. Forgive the rebellious sins of my youth…Archive for family
change in construction project plans…
Quite awhile back I talked about expanding my kids’ clubhouse… which didn’t work out that way. Initally I changed plans to build a separate treehouse, but then it became too big.
So, a few weeks back I decided to just make a small one and a friend provided some leftover wood… and here’s the result:
It was quite a bit of fun building!
a house of love and hope?
In catching up reading some of my blogs in my reader, I read across a lot from Flower Dust and her visit to India with Compassion International. It got me thinking though of places past that I’ve known where situations are similar. Can’t really say a lot of places exist like that in the US and then I remembered the single year I lived in Venezuela. And that one food drive my class did at the American international school I attended.
I remember loading up some trucks and our class (which was only 10-15 teens … that was when I was in 11th grade for the first time) and actually going out to a village. We handed out the food. Read the rest of this entry »
through the calm…
Before we got all this snow, it had been a pretty quiet weekend – it was dreary and wet. We went out a bit before it got wet. My oldest daughter was sick with the flu. We even had to keep the kids separated a bit because of it. I didn’t leave the house once, even though I really wanted to. But couldn’t. It didn’t feel like a storm or anything just a quiet calm. A little frustrating at times but we still had our fun moments playing games, puzzles, watching movies, and what-not.
I was really looking forward to going to work if for nothing else just to get out! I was all dressed for work and then Isa comes in to announce that I have no work either! Honestly I was a little disappointed which is kind-of messed up you know. ANother day to play and here I am disappointed about it? Several inches of snow outside and here I am moping around? Well yeah – that was how I felt to be honest. But later after probably the third trip I decided to stop doing things outside and just sit down and enjoy it. If you know me well, you know that I don’t usually do that – I’m just too busy to sit and relax and enjoy… And then I realized, this day was what I needed. It isn’t about being busy and going to work or going somewhere but stopping and enoying what is right there in front of me.
I hadn’t thought about it again until this morning when I heard the song “You Never Let Go” … in particular the “you never let go… through the calm and through the storm”. I well and know the storm part, but the calm – felt distant and a bit foreign to me until now. I don’t know calm. It’s foreign. I want to DO things, not sit still. Not be stuck inside.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear
And even when I’m caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won’t turn back
I know you are nearAnd I will fear no evil
For my God is with me
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go
Lord, You never let go of meAnd I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
A glorious light beyond all compare
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
We’ll live to know You here on the earthYes, I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
Still I will praise You, still I will praise You
Thank you God for the reminder.
fall is already over? and a construction project
What happened? Now I know it’s somewhat warm (40-50 degrees right now) and we’re still going to go outside like we’ve been doing, but geez. I’m not ready for the winter. Ah well; it doesn’t work that way, does it?
We barely took many pictures this fall, but if you click on the picture below you’ll see a slideshow (does anyone know how to embed a Picasa album slideshow in WordPress?) of only a bit of what we’ve been up to this fall. Read the rest of this entry »
Go, or stay…
Just watched a really awesome video from this Church for Men Florida post that was Keith Green that focused on one little command to “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”.
