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A Bundle of Myrrh

"My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh." Song of Solomon 1:13

An email from Morgan

October 24th, 2009 by Aubri

Me and Morgan c. 2006 (life was rough back then)
Thank you so much for sending me the link to your secret parenting blog. I began to read it tonight and so appreciate learning more about your life now. I miss you! I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately, smiling about how much our lives have changed. Walt and I went to La Zona Rosa this week to see a show. Our first in a year since the girls. It was stark how much our lives and hearts have been transformed since the last time I was there — with you for Ray Benson’s birthday bash. While I remember it fondly, I don’t miss that time or long for it again. But I do miss and long for you!
Ah, parenting two girls. We’ve had ours for almost a year now. That’s hard to believe. But when you see the difference in all four of us it seems much longer. They sure do become an inseparable part of you, don’t they? With all the challenges, I can imagine it no other way.
Keep writing, and please, keep sharing.
I love you!
Morgan
I often think about how much life for me and my gaggle of girlfriends has changed in the last two years. We’re all grown up and married with children or with children on the way. As someone said to me and Phil once that in a year he went “from swingin’ and single to married with children”. That can happen faster than I once thought possible! It’s funny how you can think that life will never change for you, you’ll be stuck in one situation forever then pow, it all changes at once or as it is many times little changes over time make life so different you look back one day and wonder what happened! My life the way it is now, makes my single days seem like a strange weird life in another world but some days I can remember that life like it was yesterday. I agree with what Morgan said above, I can look back with some fondness but I wouldn’t want to go back to it that’s for sure. Sure it was nice to be able to go out when I wanted with no need to find a babysitter and not have to drive 45 miles to get Starbucks but I didn’t have my man or my precious babies then either! I don’t even want to imagine life without them! It’s a struggle when Phil and I do on occasion go out without the girls. When just the 2 of us go out it’s so nice not have to dress me and 2 little people, make sure everything in our house is transferred to the diaper bag, get the girls in the car and get the girls out of the car but there’s always a strange thought in the back of my mind that I’m missing something. It’s so good to have a break from being “mama” all day everyday, but this has become my life, being a wife and a mama full time and as tiring and trying as it can be, I don’t want anything else….except my friends back! I sure miss you ladies!

A first word?

October 23rd, 2009 by Aubri

Lily has said “mo” a few times now when she wants “more” of something! As much as we love our friend Morgan, I don’t think she’s asking for “Mo”, like I do sometimes. Could this be her first word?! Or have I been in denial that when she says “ah-sigh” and points out the back door she has in fact been saying “outside” for a couple months now?! How could such a big first have slipped my notice?

Sermon on Homosexuality

October 20th, 2009 by Aubri

 

Actually Posted by PhilNo, it’s not my sermon, but one that was preached at an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) congregation in a neighboring town. A couple has started coming to my church because of the ELCA’s recent decision to allow practicing homosexuals to be pastors. Their pastor preached this sermon and they gave me a copy of it, since they were bothered by it. I thought it was interesting how this ELCA pastor made his arguments. I have excerpted his sermon and provided a critique. Here is a taste:

But what if, somewhere in the turbulence of puberty, the child discovers that he or she is gay or lesbian? Do we send them away? Maybe it is as simple as: Do your believe or do you not believe in Jesus Christ?

  • What if a child discovers he likes to get drunk, steal, and kill others’ pets? Shall we send him away? No, we tell him he cannot do those sins and must stop. He is not forgiven as long as he continues in those sins.
  • All sin can be forgiven, but by accepting sin and willfully living in sin, that one drives out the Holy Spirit and faith. The Holy God does not abide with those who consciously chose to sin (I Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:21). “We died to sin: how can we live in it any longer?” (Romans 6:2) To wallow in sin and call it good is to nullify Christ’s sacrifice for sin.
  • Faith is not a generic feeling or statement of God’s existence, but a confidence in God’s mercy—that we are forgiven because of Christ for our sin. Those who sin and refuse to call it sin, by definition, do not believe in Christ for the forgiveness of sin.
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Our Second Anniversary

October 19th, 2009 by Aubri

>Two years ago today Phil and I entered into the estate of Holy Matrimony! We had no idea on that night all the blessing the Lord had in store for us. I’m so thankful for such a loving, faithful and wise husband and two precious little girls. Our Father is so good.

 

 

“God’s word is actually inscribed on one’s spouse. When a man looks at his wife as if she were the only woman on earth, and when a woman looks at her husband if he were the only man on earth; yes, if no king or queen, not even the sun itself sparkles any more brightly and lights up your eyes more than your own husband or wife, then right there you are face to face with God speaking. God promises to you your wife or husband, actually gives your spouse to you saying, ‘The man shall be yours. I am pleased beyond measure! Creatures earthly and heavenly are jumping for joy.’ For there is no jewelry more precious than God’s Word; through it you come to regard your spouse as a gift of God and, as long as you do that, you have no regrets”
-Martin Luther