We need your Help amongst the Christians

"Have we told you how much we need your help for the work among the heathen; but often we feel we need it almost as much for the work among the Christians. Over and over again it is told, but still it is hardly understood, that the Christians need to be converted; that the vast majority are not converted; that statistics may mislead, and do not stand for Eternity work; that many a pastor, catechist, teacher, has a name to live, but it dead; that the Church is very dead as a whole--thank God for every exception. We do not say this thoughtlessly; the words are a grief to write. We humble ourselves that it is so, and take to ourselves the blame. It is true that the corpse of the dead church is dressed, just as it is at home, only here it is even more dressed; and because the spirit of the land is intensely religious, its grave-clothes are vestements. But dressed death is still death."

--Amy Carmichael

Crazy Artists

Kace
stained glass window

A Marvel and A Miracle...

O my Father, it is of Your compassions alone, that I am not consumed!...The pillar of Your presence has guided me through many a perplexing path! Your love has smiled through many a threatening cloud! Your restraining grace has arrested me in many a slippery way! ....I am truly a marvel and miracle of Your preservation, patience, and mercy!

"Hold me up--and I shall be safe!" Psalm 119:117

---John MacDuff

www.gracegems.org

Kace Art

even though Kace had no grand parents for his first gp day, he did an awesome job on this tree!!

According to Kace: How much can you eat, Daddy?

"You can eat a lion, huh, daddy?"....Kace.
"No way, kace, a lion is huge!"....Daddy.
"An elephant, then?" ...Kace.
"No, son, an elephant is bigger than a lion!" .....Daddy.
"A hippo?" ....Kace.
"Jeese!"....Daddy.
"A baby lion?" ....Kace
"No, Kace, a baby lion is big too."....Daddy.
"I know, a baby koala!"....Kace smiling, daddy shaking his head!

What Shall I Do?

So then, what shall I say to those who have thus bespattered me? Shall I threaten them? Shall I chide them? Shall I flatter them? Shall I entreat them to hold their tongues? No, not I. Were it not for that these things made them ripe for damnation, that are the authors and abettors, I would say unto them, 'Report it, because 'twill increase my glory.'

Where in the Us Have the Crazies Been???

I guess the real question is, where will we go next??

Friday Photo Round Up: Antietam Battlefield

The boys picked their own hats, I pushed for all union, unfortunately I lost that battle!

CrazY Doug Fam by Silas

Libi, Kace, Petra and Gresham are very crazy!

And Kace called himself dodeyoe and Petra puts everything in her mouth.

Gresham wines alot.

Libi bugs mom and daddy alot.

And Libi is a winy butt.

Kace is crazy, gresham is coo coo, haha!!

Crazy

Doug

Fam

Were

In

Lala

Land

a crazy family "poem" by Silas

Note: spelling is his own! haha! remember we are in second grade!

Crazy Galore

In 6 Months

may 2012

Photo Round Up: Gettysburg Trip final Photos!

Location of some of the New York Troops on the 3rd day of Fighting, during pickett's charge.
We loved this statue.

According to Petra: What happens when Libi is a Big girl and there are no more babies in our house?

"Libi is getting to be a big girl, momma"....Petra.
"Really? How can you tell?" .....Momma.
"Because Libi has teeth now!".....Petra.
"What happens when Libi is a big girl and there are no more babies in our house?" .....Momma.
"When Libi is a big girl, she'll be just like me!"....Petra.
"Yeah, but we won't have any more babies then..." ....Momma.
"Yeah, we won't have any babies then." ....Petra.
"Will that be good or bad?" ....Momma.
"That will be bad, I won't like nt having any more babies here!" ....Petra, with a very sad face.
"When I get big and am a big momma, I am gonna have twenty babies! Lots of girl babies and lots of boy babies!"....Petra.

Guess Who??

Can you guess which baby is which Crazy?? I dare ya!

My Favorite Bible Verse

God forgive us! God Arouse! Shame us out of our callousness!

The tom-toms thumped straight on all night, and the darkness shuddered round me like a living, feeling thing. I could not go to sleep, so I lay awake and looked; and I saw, as it seemed, this:

That I stood on a grassy sward, and at my feet a precipice broke sheer down into infinite space. I looked, but saw no bottom; only cloud shapes, black and furiously coiled, and great shadow-shrouded hollows, and unfathomable depths. Back I drew, dizzy at the depth.

Then I saw forms of people moving single file along the grass. They were making for the edge. There was a woman with a baby in her arms and another little child holding her dress. She was on the very verge. Then I saw that she was blind. She lifted her foot for the next step...it trod into air. She was over, and the children over with her. Oh, the cry as they went over!

What's On my Kindle? ...May

Cruciformity: Michael Gorman

Paul Schneider:  The Witness of Buchenwald

Greek Readers New Testament

While not actually reading all of these thing on my kindle, these are the books you can find me reading in this month.

May Reading Plan...

Things As they Are: Amy Carmichael
                 An honest depiction of how ministry in 1905 in India really was, no sugar coating.

Magyk: Angie Sage
                Fantasy story for med age kids, preteens. But as we all know I love childrens fiction!

Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
               The quintessential pirate book, young boys would love it. When I am done I plan to read it to my fellas.

Grace Abounding: Bunyan
              A little neurotic, but still Bunyan!

Letters and Papers from Prison: Bonhoeffer
              If you know me even just a little, you know that Bonhoeffer is my hero!

Dreaming of Peace

From "things as they are":

"Sometimes as now, when we come to a new place, we dream a dream, dream that perhaps at last it may be possible to win souls peacefully. Perhaps these courteous, kindly people will welcome the message we bring them when they understand it better. Perhaps homes need not be broken up, perhaps whole families will believe, or individual members believing may still live in their own homes and witness there.

Perhaps--perhaps--!!

And snatches of verse float through our dream--