I have deep conviction about something in that last post. So I deleted it. I’m gonna pray and talk through some stuff.
Am not intending to be confusing!
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In case you’re wondering if I’m ever gonna do that spending fast, the answer is…
I dunno.
It’s that time in the school year. Where you can’t go 5 minutes without (two!) (different!) field trip fees, school music program stuff, Field Day t-shirts, No More Bullying t-shirts, class pictures, and other ways to sell your soul to the school. (Have I mentioned that we’re only in Kindergarten?)
I’m not complaining. Except I am. But I really am happy to give to our child’s school and his activities. It’s just…not ideal for a spending fast.
Then there’s that thing where my husband is a teacher and is immersed in these same activities, only in a completely different school and capacity.
So, as with most things, this might be something that goes down better when he’s more flexible in the summer and we can do it as a team. Or: I can have a wonderful, spontaneous, inspired idea….and he can be the one that actually executes it! Welcome to our marriage.
But that shan’t be a reason we can’t plow ahead on here with money stuff. We will press on more regularly. For now, here’s a Tim Keller quote I found on Pinterest:
“Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.”
Thought-provoking, huh?
More soon!
One day when Heaven is filled with His praises
One day when sin was as black as could be
Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin
Dwelt among men, my example is He
Word became flesh and the light shined among us
His glory revealed
Living, He loved me
Dying, He saved me
Buried, He carried my sins far away
Rising, He justified freely forever
One day He’s coming
Oh glorious day, oh glorious day!
One day they led Him up Calvary’s mountain
One day they nailed Him to die on a tree
Suffering anguish, despised and rejected
Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He
Hands that healed nations, stretched out on a tree
And took the nails for me
One day the grave could conceal Him no longer
One day the stone rolled away from the door
Then He arose, over death He had conquered
Now He’s ascended, my Lord evermore
Death could not hold Him, the grave could not keep Him
From rising again
Rising again!!
One day the trumpet will sound for His coming
One day the skies with His glories will shine
Wonderful day, my Beloved One, bringing
My Savior, Jesus, is mine!
Living, He loved me
Dying, He saved me
Buried, He carried my sins far away
Rising, He justified freely forever
One day He’s coming
Oh glorious day, oh glorious day!
Oh, glorious day!
Oh, glorious day
Casting Crowns, Glorious Day
And if you want some chills this Easter morning….
From noon to three, the whole earth was dark. Around midafternoon Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly,
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”
which means,
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
Some bystanders who heard him said,
“He’s calling for Elijah.”
One of them ran and got a sponge soaked in sour wine and lifted it on a stick so he could drink.
The others joked,
“Don’t be in such a hurry. Let’s see if Elijah comes and saves him.”
But Jesus, again crying out loudly, breathed his last.
At that moment, the Temple curtain was ripped in two, top to bottom.
There was an earthquake, and rocks were split in pieces.
What’s more, tombs were opened up, and many bodies of believers asleep in their graves were raised. (After Jesus’ resurrection, they left the tombs, entered the holy city, and appeared to many.)
The captain of the guard and those with him, when they saw the earthquake and everything else that was happening, were scared to death.
They said,
“This has to be the Son of God!”
Matthew 27:45-54 The Message
May it never not move us.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing…
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come…
At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory…
Matthew 23:37, 24:14, 30
Does your community ever knock your socks off?
It’s my turn to be miserably ill.
Friend 1 took son 1 to school and son 2 to her play date until nap time so I could rest. She also brought me Gatorade and saltines.
Friend 2 is cooking us dinner as I type.
Friend 3 is bringing son 1 home from school as I type.
Friend 4 just dropped off my favorite candy (to obviously eat after I’m not miserably ill).
I love all the people.
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied:
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Matthew 22:34-40
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.'”
The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area,
“Hosanna to the Son of David,”
they were indignant.
“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “Have you never read,
‘From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise?'”
And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.
– Matthew 21:12-17
The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.
A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
The crowds went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,
“Hosanna to the Son of David!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Hosanna in the highest!”
Matthew 21:6-9
What a weird week.
Started off with sickness in the family. Bleh.
Then on Tuesday a lady fell and broke her arm on the way out of my Fall Avoidance class. It was terrible.
Some other physically and emotionally draining stuff, too.
But, as always, God has been faithful. There have been sweet, serendipitous moments of joy and light as well.
I want to celebrate those today with you.
Things like gorgeous weather and playing outside.
New books and fresh ideas.
The joy our boys have at the growing sprouts in our seedlings – we will have a garden outside by this weekend!
Watching God be faithful with the outreach – He is moving!
A little too much chocolate – – but mixed with a whole lotta grace.
Watching Him provide for our needs and others’.
A six-week old puppy at a garage sale.
Picnic with toddler friends.
Diving ever deeper into community.
Cobbler mixed with a science lesson.
He is so, so good.
Hope you’re having a good week!