i love him
ideas for the baby’s room … to be continued
These are all ideas. I’m thinking of framing the bird print (top picture) or one like it. And I love the bird mobile in the green prints. We have a crib that we are painting white, and a rocking chair that just needs a seat. I bought material today to make a pillow for the rocker like the one shown above, just in light green instead of mustard. I’ll post a pic when (if) it’s done. We painted the ceiling light blue, and I really love the idea of hanging white paper lanterns.
We’ll see how it turns out!
random thought ….
What do ice cream truck drivers do during the school year? They just seem to go into hibernation until the next summer …
"angel rays"
ta-da!
We did it! We moved – for the second time.
our first little home, being packed up
this morning i cleaned the bathroom …
… it took quite a bit psyche-ing up and time (lots of breaks were required), and I still want to scrub the floor. After that, it will be as clean as Comet, a bit of Bleach, and a lot of elbow grease
can make it. To celebrate, I took a few pictures of the ducks.
bedroom window, 8 am
a gift from my husband …
… so that I can come visit him at work, at any time he is there – whether or not the store is technically “open”.
date night
tonight we walked Madison Road in Oakley, the community just up the street from us. We took a side street and went to the local thrift store (and bought The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature, Shrek, and a shirt for John. The book and shirt were both half off, too.).
It was warm tonight, so walking got rather tiring, but Oakley is a beautiful old area. There are some really wonderful little shops, a childrens book store, a toy store, a great old-time ice cream parlor/candy shop, as well as a bank building from 1904.
We had dinner at Kona, and really enjoyed it. It was a little bit pricey, but tasted amazing and was quite filling. Yummy place.
Mark 6
And when they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized Him, and ran about the whole country and began to carry about on their pallets those who were sick, to the place where He was. And wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick on the market places, that they might just touch they fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were cured. – Mark 6:54-56
Imagine the frenzy. The hurry, the excitement. Jesus was the eye in the storm, and the people swarmed in mad masses around Him. And He did not send them away. He had compassion on their suffering, and healed the sick.
I wonder what His response to the madness was? It is highly unlikely that all these people truly believed. Most were there because of the phenomena of His miracles.
In other places Jesus tells a person that they were healed because of their faith, because they believed.
These people believed Him to be extraordinary, certainly, but the Messiah – God?
He allowed everyone to come to Him, and turned no one away. Even though the people treated Him like some sort of magic fetish, He healed them all, asking nothing of them. It was freely given, and probably recieved with great jubilation and not much afterthought. But that was fine, Jesus had not required any.
That’s the point. Jesus offers healing. He does not require holiness, perfection. What you do with His gift to you is up to you. There is no “if you do this, then I’ll ….”, none. None.
At all.