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| Just a couple of pictures of our new church auditorium and foyer. This Sunday will be our first week in the new building! God is blessing! He is so good.
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| I have been reading through the Bible in 90 days. I will admit that I do enjoy the in depth study much more. But it has been good to enter into the discipline of extended periods of reading, of forcing my mind to stay engaged. Right now I am in Isaiah. (right on track I must say) I have read chapter, after chapter of Israels punishment for their ambivalence toward God. I was thinking this AM as I read, how sad it all is. How we are so prone to sin and so wrapped up in our lives and so used to not being punished for our wrongs. We have the nerve to wonder if God is paying attention to our needs, when we spend so much of our day pursuing our own agenda.
I have also been reflecting on the cost of discipleship. What is the cost? For Jesus it was His very life. But we want discipleship to be easy. We want to live our lives however we want, and not be held accountable. We want to watch whatever we want on TV. We want to skip church when a better option turns up. We want to engage in a little worldly activity as long as "our heart is right". We want to fit God into our lives, instead of fitting our lives to God. We want the standard for what we do with our lives to be our own heart needs. Where is the cost in that?
These people say they are mine.
They honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
And their worship of me
is nothing but man made rules
learned by rote.
Isaiah 29:13
We haven't set the bar high enough.
We aren't willing to go to the cross.
Discipleship means sacrifice.
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| CONGRATULATIONS HEIDI
 What a beautiful performance. =) | | |
| It is snowing again. Can you believe it. We are in the middle of a nor'easter! The snow is filtering down like powdered sugar. The inches are piling up. I was reminded today of the time my parents came for Christmas. My mother was worried about the snow which was falling. Howie, who knew she was skiddish about the snow looked out the window and said, "There's better than a foot out there." My mother looked horrified and rushed to window. "There's only an inch on the ground." she said. Howie said, "Well, thats better than a foot isn't it?" (Strange Maine humor. =)
Last week I spent a couple of days in Clarks Summit with Heidi and Lacey. Since the girls spring breaks didn't coincide, Howie thought it would be a nice girl time for us to go down and see her. It was. =) We spent an hour watching West Side Story. The girls decided it was a bit lame and we gave up on it. When I told them how it ended they were horrified. They hate sad endings. Only happy endings for the Fraser girls! =)
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I am going to have to plow today. There is no way around it...
yay...
6 hours later:
I did it. It was sort of fun. Except for opening the barn door in below zero weather with the wind sucking the air right outta my lungs and the fact that my key chain broke and I dropped all the keys in the snow and I also had to shovel so I could get the car outta the garage. whine, whine, whine!
Hard to see, I know. But that little triangle is pointing to a four foot drift that I had to eliminate. That little house on the right is at the END of our driveway. All those little stakes mark where the edge of the driveway is so I can actually stay on track and not take a "field trip".
This is heading back up the driveway after successfully breaking through that awful snowdrift. I had to get creative. I could just plow through. It was too hard packed and too deep. But I did it!
ok- so this picture is in here twice. I can't get rid of it for some reason!
I called Howie (who is blissful soaking up the warmth on his business trip in NC), and he said, "I am SO proud of you!" Isn't that interesting? I have never heard such admiration in his voice. Not when I cook a fabulous meal. Not when I bake him Boston Cream Pie. Not when I do an awesome job painting the bathroom. Not when I make the toilet bowl sparkle. Not when I sing my brains out in church.
Nope.
But I don't think I have smiled as big either. Arr Arr!
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