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--

Just for fun!!

Crazy Artists...

kace

Birth According to Silas

"Well how do they get the belly open to get the baby out?".....Silas.
"It just opens." ...Me, (yeah I am a chicken so what?)
"Well, then how does it close?" .....Silas.
"It just does!" ....Me.
"Like a transformer? It changes from being one thing into being another?"....Silas.
"Yeah something like that." ...me.
"Yeah, son, only there is a lotta yelling when the transformations happen." ....Will, laughing.
"No there's not!"....me.
"Well, sometimes!" ....Will.

3 Babies

Momma and her girls!

Is this my daughter???

can you see a resemblance??

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If you Braid it....

A Wedding Sermon from a Prison Cell

We have been married for 9 years today and this is the best reminder I can think of to post as a celebration not just of our marriage, but also of the institution of marriage and the grace of God.

I am so thankful for the work and faith of this man, Bonhoeffer. His book Discipleship is probably my most favorite aside from the bible, ever.

A Wedding Sermon From A Prison Cell by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Old Dudes have some Pretty Cool Words to share....

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace (Thomas Watson).

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not first cross bearers here below. (CH Spurgeon )

They are following Christ, and they know where they are going. And even in the dark river, in the valley of the shadow of death--they feel a confidence that their Shepherd will be with them, and that His rod and His staff will comfort them. They would all tell you that they are poor wandering sheep, ashamed of the little fruit they bear. But still, as weak as they are, they are determined to follow on to the end, and to say, "None but Christ--in life and in death, in time and in eternity!" (J.C. Ryle)

Update......Well we're still crazy so not too much has changed!!

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