Isaac in heaven

We have some awesome neighbors. And the cool part about living in the coutry is that people drive tractors down my street alot. Isaac loves tractors. Our neighbor came over and helped prep our garden, and he let Isaac drive the tractor! Isaac was in awe!

Isaac also loves farm animals, and the cool thing about living in the coutry is that there are farms on our road, like real ones that grow things and have animals. Across the street are a few cows, and down the road are horses, goats, roosters, chickens, ponies, sheep etc... and in our yard we see rabbits, foxes, deer, etc.. and at night we can hear wolves (yes real wovles that howl, just like the stereotypical wolf howl in the movie) coyotes, owls.

I love it here.

Nolan is cute

The play structure

We were praying for some kind of play structure to challenge Isaac with. We had a few hundred dollars from the boys birthdays and christmas and the like, and we went to Lowes, only to be severly disappointed.

At lowes we had enough money for the slide. that's about it. We left disappointed, so we prayed about it, and asked God to show us what to do. Within a few days my Father in law called us wanting to know if we wanted a GINORMOUS play structure. A house was being forclosed on and he could get it for a few hundred dollars.

We accepted, and within a few days it was hauled out on a trailor and set up for the boys to play on!

Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything, tell God what you need, and thank God for what you have, and let God's peace rest upon you. Philippians 4:6-7

Outside!

I love the summer! We can be outside and play in the dirt!

Cute Pics

He's Walkin!

Nolan's walking now. He does really great. Most of the time.

Apology

HT: Crummy Church Signs

Shane Claiborne

HT: Zach L.

Quote of the Day

We create artificial fullness and try to hang on to that. But there's nothing to hold on to when we begin to taste the fullness of the now. God is either in this now or God isn't at all.

As we grow older, we tend to become control freaks. We need to control everybody and everything, moment by moment, to be happy. If the now has never been full or sufficient, we will always be grasping, even addictive or obsessive. If you're pushing yourself and others around, you have not yet found the secret of happiness.

None of us are completely present. So don't feel guilty. This is the ideal, the enlightened moments that come now and then. But we do know that when we are manipulating, changing, controlling, and fixing, we are not there yet. The calculating mind is the opposite of the contemplative mind. The first is thought by the system, the second by the Spirit.

We might consider this prayer to try to draw ourselves into a contemplative frame of mind:

Be still and know that I am God.

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know.

Be still.

Be.

Richard Rohr: Everything Belongs

Family BBQ

We had our end of summer family bbq at church this Wednesday. We take the first Wednesday in June and invite all the families of the students involved in the ministry out for a night of burgers, hotdogs, and kickball. We had a blast. The adults faced off against the students in kickball and annihilated them: 15-3. It was a great night. Josh took these sweet pics of out time, enjoy:

Quote of the Day:

Shared life is a way of being present to another person so that another person can be present to you. It's a quality of being, of living. A sharing attitude makes room inside of you so that others can crawl in and you can crawl out into them. You become touched and touchable, supporting and supportable.

There's life moving in and life moving out. I could summarize Jesus' most radical teaching as a call to "universal table fellowship" (see with whom he eats, whom he invites to the banquet, and then you will know why they killed him!).

Richard Rohr: Radical Grace