2008-05-28

See Susan Fly With Jesus

My oh my - this girl is crazy! Susan went up 2,000 feet, flapped her arms, talked to Jesus and almost rocked herself to a plunging death. Apparently while up 2,000 feet (flapping and chatting away) she discovered how fun it was to rock back and forth on the extremely thin strap wrapped around her booty ... which totally freaked out the Parasail professionals driving the boat.

Thankfully Christ saw fit to return her home in one piece. Susan's Place in the Sky, 2000 miles high!

2008-05-22

Karen Graduates!


Congratulations Karen! Great Job on Graduating from Kindergarten. Look Out First Grade!!!

2008-05-19

Unique

Are you His?

"He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join Him in the work He does, the good work He has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing." Ephesians 2:10

"
Just as each of us
has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function" Romans 12:4

So although I have NO idea what He made duck billed platypuses for .... or stinkbugs .... or even, you -- I say embrace it and do what He has just for you.
Go be the uniquely made vessel He is making you into ... do what He has for you to do because it is meant to be useful somehow, even if we can't figure it out!

And if you think of it, drop me a line about your adventure.

2008-05-13

Lessons in Flying

Jumped, stumbled or pushed? Some of us choose to leap into challenges, others stumbled into them and once in awhile we all have been pushed into hard uncomfortable places. However it is that you find yourself free falling through the air with Jesus consider this...

"...those who trust the LORD
will find new strength. They will be strong like eagles soaring upward on wings..."

Answer this question:
Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, His Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does He do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust Him to do them in you? Don't these things happen among you just as they happened with Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right with God.
Is it not obvious to you that persons who put their trust in Christ (not persons who put their trust in the law!) are like Abraham: children of faith? It was all laid out beforehand in Scripture that God would set things right with non-Jews by faith. Scripture anticipated this in the promise to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed in you." So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith—this is no new doctrine! And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure." ... Or in the "cliff notes" version: SPLAT!

So as you find yourself free falling or if you are more aware than myself ... and actually see the upcoming cliff that you are getting ready to fall from, I encourage you to embrace your lesson in flying and enjoy the view!

2008-05-12

Love This

2008-05-06

Way to Go - Come2Grow Kids!

Congratulations to Quinton, Diego, Clarity, Olivia & Sierra for memorizing your verse. Your names have been written in the Come2Grow Kids Scroll and your reward of "big chocolate" was certainly well earned!

Good Job!
Thanks Kali for writing the names so beautifully on the Come2Grow Scroll.



2008-05-05

Carrie Get's Inked

"You (Carrie) yourselves are all the endorsement we need. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone (or flesh), but carved into human lives—and we publish it."2Corinthians 3:3

My sweet sister Carrie has been a lovely opportunity for me to watch Jesus' action in and through. My guess is that few miss that Carrie is Alive in Adonai ... however, this statement will speak to even those who somehow might have missed it on her face.

If you know Carrie at all, you know she is almost always praying. However, I just had to share this especially tender moment of prayer between her and God.



2008-05-02

Happy Birthday 6th Baby Bear!!!


Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday Baby Bear
Happy Birthday to You!!!!

Wow -- 6 years old already -- my does time fly!!!

Congratulations on making it though your birthday party last night ...