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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Loaded!
Wow! We are done loading! It took one while day to do it. Gene, Josh, Jesse, Kaelynn, and Taylor helped us get it 100% loaded. Pretty awesome.
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Friday, October 14, 2011
In Minnesota !!
Well, I have now made it on the first leg of my trip to Boise to pack up our stuff to head to Winona! Can't wait!
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
A Moment in Life
Today, Audrey will attend her first day of Kindergarten. Big day!
We are living in North Dakota now while we continue to wait on what God has in store. I suppose in some people's mind it would seem like God has forgotten us or maybe not had a plan for us or maybe we aren't hearing HIM correctly.
That is not how I see it and not how I believe my God works. God has a plan for everyone. There is no plan A or plan B; there is just God's plan. God takes our choices and circumstances, and HIS plan and mixes them to make beautiful, sweet lemonade that is HIS very best for us. God's Best Lemonade!
Today is another step in the journey God has for us. It is another step in following a God that wishes HIS best for us every day. It is God's best for us today!
To God be the glory for all things that have happened and that will happen!
Dave
We are living in North Dakota now while we continue to wait on what God has in store. I suppose in some people's mind it would seem like God has forgotten us or maybe not had a plan for us or maybe we aren't hearing HIM correctly.
That is not how I see it and not how I believe my God works. God has a plan for everyone. There is no plan A or plan B; there is just God's plan. God takes our choices and circumstances, and HIS plan and mixes them to make beautiful, sweet lemonade that is HIS very best for us. God's Best Lemonade!
Today is another step in the journey God has for us. It is another step in following a God that wishes HIS best for us every day. It is God's best for us today!
To God be the glory for all things that have happened and that will happen!
Dave
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Fog & Faith
Here is a story of faith:
“We had George Muller of Bristol on board,” said the captain. “I had been on the bridge for twenty-four hours and never left it and George Muller came to me and said, “Captain, I have come to tell you I must be in Quebec on Saturday afternoon.” “It is impossible,” I said. “Then very well, if your ship cannot take me, God will find some other way. I have never broken an engagement in fifty-seven years; let us go down into the chart room and pray.”
“I looked at that man of God and thought to myself, “What lunatic asylum can that man have come from, for I never heard of such a thing as this?” “Mr. Muller,” I said, “do you know how dense this fog is?”
““No,” he replied, “my eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God who controls every circumstance of my life.” He knelt down and he prayed one of the most simple prayers. When he had finished I was going to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me not to pray. “As you do not believe He will answer, and as I believe He has, there is no need whatever for you to pray about it.”
“I looked at him and George Muller said, “Captain, I have known my Lord for fifty-seven years and there has never been a single day when I have failed to get an audience with the King. Get up, Captain, and open the door and you will find the fog has gone.”
“I got up and the fog indeed was gone, and on that Saturday afternoon George Muller kept his promised engagement.”
Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996).
“We had George Muller of Bristol on board,” said the captain. “I had been on the bridge for twenty-four hours and never left it and George Muller came to me and said, “Captain, I have come to tell you I must be in Quebec on Saturday afternoon.” “It is impossible,” I said. “Then very well, if your ship cannot take me, God will find some other way. I have never broken an engagement in fifty-seven years; let us go down into the chart room and pray.”
“I looked at that man of God and thought to myself, “What lunatic asylum can that man have come from, for I never heard of such a thing as this?” “Mr. Muller,” I said, “do you know how dense this fog is?”
““No,” he replied, “my eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God who controls every circumstance of my life.” He knelt down and he prayed one of the most simple prayers. When he had finished I was going to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me not to pray. “As you do not believe He will answer, and as I believe He has, there is no need whatever for you to pray about it.”
“I looked at him and George Muller said, “Captain, I have known my Lord for fifty-seven years and there has never been a single day when I have failed to get an audience with the King. Get up, Captain, and open the door and you will find the fog has gone.”
“I got up and the fog indeed was gone, and on that Saturday afternoon George Muller kept his promised engagement.”
Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996).
Friday, July 8, 2011
Believe!
I was reading good old Oswald tonight and saw tomorrow’s reading. I couldn’t help myself and read it.
Reminded me of Gideon: “. . . the weaker and feebler you are, the better.”
It took me back to thinking about how much I am depending on God. There are days that I feel like I am truly placing myself in HIS hands. Other days, I feel less so. As John believed, it comes down to one question, “Do you believe?”
If we believe, then what does that mean? One premise leads to another. If we believe THEN . . . and because we believe that THEN we believe . . . and because we believe that THEN God does have HIS very best for me in store. Because I am worth it. I am worthy. Through God I am. In the middle of not knowing where we are going and what we are doing, I know that I must believe and follow that believe to where it takes us.
We are called to believe. We are called to obey.
We don’t have to know the why. We don’t have to know the answers.
We do have to believe.
Believe it.
“Ye cannot serve the Lord. Joshua 24:19.
Have you the slightest reliance on any thing other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before you? That is what the probing means. It is quite true to say—‘I cannot live a holy life’; but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. “Ye cannot serve the Lord God”—but you can put yourself in the place where God’s Almighty power will work through you. Are you sufficiently right with God to expect Him to manifest His wonderful life in you?
“Nay, but we will serve the Lord.” It is not an impulse, but a deliberate commitment. You say—‘But God can never have called me to this, I am too unworthy, it can’t mean me.’ It does mean you, and the weaker and feebler you are, the better. The one who has something to trust in is the last one to come anywhere near saying—‘I will serve the Lord.’
We say—‘If I really could believe!’ The point is—If I really will believe. No wonder Jesus Christ lays such emphasis on the sin of unbelief. “And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.” If we really believed that God meant what He said—what should we be like! Dare I really let God be to me all that He says He will be?”
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest : Selections for the Year, NIV edition. (Westwood, NJ: Barbour and Co., 1993).
Reminded me of Gideon: “. . . the weaker and feebler you are, the better.”
It took me back to thinking about how much I am depending on God. There are days that I feel like I am truly placing myself in HIS hands. Other days, I feel less so. As John believed, it comes down to one question, “Do you believe?”
If we believe, then what does that mean? One premise leads to another. If we believe THEN . . . and because we believe that THEN we believe . . . and because we believe that THEN God does have HIS very best for me in store. Because I am worth it. I am worthy. Through God I am. In the middle of not knowing where we are going and what we are doing, I know that I must believe and follow that believe to where it takes us.
We are called to believe. We are called to obey.
We don’t have to know the why. We don’t have to know the answers.
We do have to believe.
Believe it.
“Ye cannot serve the Lord. Joshua 24:19.
Have you the slightest reliance on any thing other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before you? That is what the probing means. It is quite true to say—‘I cannot live a holy life’; but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. “Ye cannot serve the Lord God”—but you can put yourself in the place where God’s Almighty power will work through you. Are you sufficiently right with God to expect Him to manifest His wonderful life in you?
“Nay, but we will serve the Lord.” It is not an impulse, but a deliberate commitment. You say—‘But God can never have called me to this, I am too unworthy, it can’t mean me.’ It does mean you, and the weaker and feebler you are, the better. The one who has something to trust in is the last one to come anywhere near saying—‘I will serve the Lord.’
We say—‘If I really could believe!’ The point is—If I really will believe. No wonder Jesus Christ lays such emphasis on the sin of unbelief. “And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.” If we really believed that God meant what He said—what should we be like! Dare I really let God be to me all that He says He will be?”
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest : Selections for the Year, NIV edition. (Westwood, NJ: Barbour and Co., 1993).
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
God Sighting
I was reading today what a God Sighting is and how they help us.
It is a part of an idea of taking time to see God and how He is working. But it is also more than that. It is a time to share those things as a family. Most of the time God Sightings point us to remembering who God is and what He is doing (and always has done for that matter!!!).
Today’s God Sighting happened when I went to McDonald’s to sell an old phone I had to a nice lady from Craigslist.
It was a wonderful time because her husband came and we talked about the phone and conducted our business. As we talked we learned about each other a bit and it was great because God showed himself again.
We found out we were Christians and they shared some about their life and I shared some about my story and what was going on with us:
Even more, God didn’t have to supply that God Sighting. He just gave it as a bonus. God did what HE expects us to do. Give our best. Go the extra mile.
Time and time again, God has gone the extra mile during this faith walk with us.
What an awesome God we serve!
It is a part of an idea of taking time to see God and how He is working. But it is also more than that. It is a time to share those things as a family. Most of the time God Sightings point us to remembering who God is and what He is doing (and always has done for that matter!!!).
Today’s God Sighting happened when I went to McDonald’s to sell an old phone I had to a nice lady from Craigslist.
It was a wonderful time because her husband came and we talked about the phone and conducted our business. As we talked we learned about each other a bit and it was great because God showed himself again.
We found out we were Christians and they shared some about their life and I shared some about my story and what was going on with us:
- How we were waiting on God to show us the next step of our faith walk.
- How we were doing what HE asked us to do - prepare.
- How there might be an opportunity for us this week and how we were excited to see if this is what God has in store for us.
Even more, God didn’t have to supply that God Sighting. He just gave it as a bonus. God did what HE expects us to do. Give our best. Go the extra mile.
Time and time again, God has gone the extra mile during this faith walk with us.
What an awesome God we serve!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Audrey's Birthday!
Today is my five year olds birthday!!
She had an awesome birthday! She talked to family. She opened gifts. We took her training wheels off. We went to her favorite restaurant.
Turning five is a big deal. It is a moment of significance. I would not go quite as far as to call it a rite of passage. It IS a time to remember. A time to celebrate a milestone.
Today was a day of liturgies. No, of course not in the normal way the word liturgy is used. But instead a liturgy of family. All families have their liturgies. For some it involves a Sunday morning and the comic section. I remember as a kid the Saturday morning liturgy. T
That was when good cartoons were on and the best ones were on starting at 6 am! You had to get up early to see the best. So get up early my brother and I did. We would get up and creep to the living room. We would get our bowls and our sugar cereal and turn on the TV. Superfriends! Amazing Spiderman! Fat Albert! School House Rock! The Grape Ape Show! Captain Caveman! And of course the “violent” Bugs Bunny Show.
It was a ritual. A liturgy. It had meaning in the life of the family. Today was one of THOSE days. My opinion? She will never forget today.
Those are great days!
She had an awesome birthday! She talked to family. She opened gifts. We took her training wheels off. We went to her favorite restaurant.
Turning five is a big deal. It is a moment of significance. I would not go quite as far as to call it a rite of passage. It IS a time to remember. A time to celebrate a milestone.
Today was a day of liturgies. No, of course not in the normal way the word liturgy is used. But instead a liturgy of family. All families have their liturgies. For some it involves a Sunday morning and the comic section. I remember as a kid the Saturday morning liturgy. T
That was when good cartoons were on and the best ones were on starting at 6 am! You had to get up early to see the best. So get up early my brother and I did. We would get up and creep to the living room. We would get our bowls and our sugar cereal and turn on the TV. Superfriends! Amazing Spiderman! Fat Albert! School House Rock! The Grape Ape Show! Captain Caveman! And of course the “violent” Bugs Bunny Show.
It was a ritual. A liturgy. It had meaning in the life of the family. Today was one of THOSE days. My opinion? She will never forget today.
Those are great days!
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