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You hear people talk about God giving them faith to do something, and perhaps you think… that’s silly! Faith comes from ME, not from God. He gives me something to have faith IN, but not the faith. Well, I would agree with that. But I would add that perhaps there is some truth in the…

Sometimes it’s just really fun to see how and when God does stuff. Earlier this weekend, I commented to Jen – only half joking – that we really had no money (even the cushion we had for a while in savings was gone, because we spent it on what it was saved for, the new…

We came out of the coffee house last night refreshed and encouraged and pumped full of wonderful confections. 🙂 Life was good, the people were friendly, we had just shared some really great stuff about the Kingdom and our God that hopefully encouraged everyone to enjoy life with Him even more. I was loading our…

So, today has been crazy once again… just spent MOST ALL of the day trying to catch up on financial arrangements… moving money here, tracking money there, looking for ways to creatively make everything happen… and… God is good… he continues to provide for us even when I do a bad job of keeping track….

What a happy girl! She is so fun!!! This is our (complete) bountiful harvest from my super gardening skills this summer. It was our first attempt… 🙂

Sometimes, when life is so busy, it actually helps me a LOT to do something totally different. 🙂 The lists for today are completely overwhelming again (I’m almost out of the woods, though, by the way…) but I had made a commitment some time ago to play ball with my ball-playin’ friends starting in September….

Was just outside taking the trash to the curb, and as I was walking along the sidewalk, the sun hit it just perfectly revealing tons of spider web crosswalks and a few snail or slug trails. And as I walked by I hit a few more higher-altitude spiders… We are not alone… 🙂

Just finished The Secrets of the Vine … the book I started a couple weeks ago and blogged about it briefly. Just wanted to say it was pretty neat. A quick read for sure, but still cool. The whole book is based on the 15th chapter of John, where Jesus was talking about his relationship…

In the midst of minutes of coverage of the amazing effects of Hurricane Frances pummeling Florida, there was a 2 second shot of two young teenagers jumping and splashing in the flooded street. What a cool picture of joy in the middle of pain. So much destruction, you’d think that everyone would be depressed and…

The topic of the communion meditation today was the hostage situation in Russia this past week. The tale itself is horrific… over a hundred kids dead, shot in the back as they tried to run away. Just really heart-wrenchingly sad… He briefly described the situation leading up to it. The tiny region of Chechnia (who…