"My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh." Song of Solomon 1:13
June 9th, 2013 by Aubri
We finished a week of Bible School Friday and I have to say we were all relieved to not have to get up and go to church Saturday morning! We’re worn out. Phil organized this year and he taught a class. I didn’t want to teach again so I lead the crafts instead. Fun, but tiring for all.
June 5th, 2013 by Aubri
I’m very excited to begin this book by Gene Edward Veith. It’s a book on Luther’s doctrine of Vocation as it applies to our callings within our families. From chapter 2 Veith writes:
“Christians can feel that their everyday lives have no meaning. They want to escape their mundane lives by means of transcendent spiritual experience. In I Corinthians 5, we see that believers can also imagine a disconnect between their daily lives and the faith they profess. More common, though, is the notion that they have to do “spiritual things” – church work, or Bible study or witnessing – in order to serve God, sometimes at the expense o their families. This devaluing of ordinary life can be so firmly rooted in our expectations that many Christians will accept only extraordinary supernatural experiences as counting for their spiritual lives, while missing God’s presence in the ordinary and the everyday.
The doctrine of vocation, in contrast, brings the physical and the spiritual together, so that spiritual reality becomes tangible. The ordinary doesn’t need to be a burden we bear to escape when we learn to discern God’s presence in the everyday patterns of life. Physical reality, including our everyday tasks and callings, becomes transfigured with the presence of God.”
You may hear more from these pages from time to time. I think there will be a lot of great thoughts to share (Veith’s, probably not mine).
June 1st, 2013 by Aubri
Over the last couple weeks I can really tell I’ve come entered the glorious second trimester of pregnancy. It’s my fave, the second trimester. A little more energy, the icky all day feeling is history, the restless legs have settled down and the horrors of the third trimester are weeks away.
Of course I’m wetting my pants every time I sneeze, unable to drink water without getting heartburn and starting to outgrow pregnancy #5 maternity clothes, but I feel great! And thankfully baby seems to be doing great too.
Please don’t ask why there’s a picture of biscuits in this post. I’m 17 weeks pregnant, I don’t know why I do half the things I do.
