1-10-10 More Sunday

I so enjoyed being in church today; although I've been able to listen over the phone when I'm home with sick children, I miss the fellowship and the singing. Wow, the singing is just beautiful...and heaven will be indescribably better. It was good to be there. Chuck had the morning sermon...it was good to be reminded that although satan wants to make serving God look difficult, it really isn't. His commandments are not grievous. In the afternoon message, Steve spoke of Jesus praying all night before he chose his 12 disciples (Luke 6). I've never thought about that before...if he was God, why did he need to pray all night? Steve pointed out that Jesus was flesh; as men and women it takes effort to discern the will of God. He also referenced back to the morning where we heard about the persistence of the woman who came to the unjust judge. Effort... persistence... those are action words. As if that wasn't enough to ponder, Dan finished up in the afternoon and focused briefly on how Jesus was so watched and criticized...Jesus was flesh, he knows what we go through, he will listen, he will answer. Whew, what a challenging day, yet so encouraging at the same time. Truly, God is good.

After church we had a routine afternoon except Dad had to check out the chimney because the woodburner was smoking really odd this morning. He let the fire go out all day, hoping to fix the problem this afternoon and fire it up again for the evening and overnight. Didn't work that way...he found a creasote build-up that he could not fix. So the woodburner is on hold for the week until he can look further into it on Saturday.

Children did chores and we got ready for supper company; we had a good time with our friends the Keevers. We always enjoy our times with them although it doesn't happen much. And....
Tori solved the Rubik's Cube!



















Joshua is just one day older than Troy, so it was pretty cute to watch these little guys together.