2/07/2005
Living in a fog?
Today when I say "I'm living in a fog" I mean it very literally. This is the foggiest day I've ever seen. On the way to take the girls to school, I met a big car with NO lights. It had just come around a curve with the two driver's side wheels on my side of the yellow line. If I'd been ten seconds ahead of time, I feel sure there'd have been a head-on collision. When it comes to how much God protects us, I think we really are living in a fog -- even on sunny days. We have no idea how many close calls we escape from unharmed. I knew today though and I'm so thankful for that line of traffic I had to wait on instead of getting to turn straight on to the school road like usual. That slowed me down about . . . ten seconds. :) Blessings in disguise. . .
OH, the Wizard of Oz was great! And yes, the girls liked it. My oldest didn't love it, but she did at least say it was good. We all agreed we'd like to go again when they do a different show. Culture is alive and well in the Ozark Mountains. :)
I have to clean house today because the air conditioning man is coming this afternoon. UNLESS, the book I ordered - Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook - comes in and then the AC man is on his own in the jungle we call home. :) (I mean after all, the vents are in the ceiling. That's the one clean place in the house.) I've been holding off on plotting that southern lit I'm so excited about, waiting for this workbook to come in so I can use it.
Quote from yesterday's sermon - "God's mercy is greater than any mercy man can ever show." It took me a minute of thinking, but I realized how right that is. I think of myself as extremely merciful, but you know what most often motivates me? Realizing what a goof-up I am sometimes. That makes it a lot easier for me to cut others some slack. But, God in all His infinite perfection, why should He give us a break? He shouldn't. He has no basis for saying, Ah, well, we all mess up now and then. Thinking about his unwarranted mercy and grace makes the depth of His love that much more unfathomable, doesn't it?
Peace out!
COMMENTS:
OH, the Wizard of Oz was great! And yes, the girls liked it. My oldest didn't love it, but she did at least say it was good. We all agreed we'd like to go again when they do a different show. Culture is alive and well in the Ozark Mountains. :)
I have to clean house today because the air conditioning man is coming this afternoon. UNLESS, the book I ordered - Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook - comes in and then the AC man is on his own in the jungle we call home. :) (I mean after all, the vents are in the ceiling. That's the one clean place in the house.) I've been holding off on plotting that southern lit I'm so excited about, waiting for this workbook to come in so I can use it.
Quote from yesterday's sermon - "God's mercy is greater than any mercy man can ever show." It took me a minute of thinking, but I realized how right that is. I think of myself as extremely merciful, but you know what most often motivates me? Realizing what a goof-up I am sometimes. That makes it a lot easier for me to cut others some slack. But, God in all His infinite perfection, why should He give us a break? He shouldn't. He has no basis for saying, Ah, well, we all mess up now and then. Thinking about his unwarranted mercy and grace makes the depth of His love that much more unfathomable, doesn't it?
Peace out!
COMMENTS:
Let us know how the workbook goes! I hear the book itself is great. We want to write those breakout novels, don't we? :)
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