Ah, patience. The one word that has been a theme of my life.
“Waiting patiently is suffering through the present moment, tasting it to the full, and letting the seeds that are sown in the ground on which we stand grow into strong plants." -Henri Nouwen
How hard yet how true are these words. Sometimes it seems as if life would be easier if we could turn off emotion and just ride out the storm, but I don’t think that is what the Lord wants us to do. I think He wants us to taste the suffering as well as the sweetness that life throws at us. To embrace the hard times knowing that sometimes the Lord uses fire to refine us and make us shine more brightly like Him, to make us to reflect more and more his beauty.
Lord, help me to remember these words when in the midst of suffering and in the midst of patient waiting that seems like it will never end.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Open House Extravaganza
October 28th was the date of our Open House to celebrate the fact that Danita and I are now proud "new" home owners! It's crazy to think that the house that we have lived in for the last 3 years is now ours-ours to remodel, ours to repaint, ours to fix. It was almost like a right of passage, a stepping more solidly into the world of adulthood. There is no more fooling ourselves that we are still "kids" who have just gotten out of college.
We had stations that
The party was a blast! We had over 100 people show up to give us their support of our new endeavor and a whole bunch more that expressed to us that they wish they could have been there but weren't! I was blown away to say the least! We definitely don't deserve such amazing and seemingly countless people in our lives. I often get overwhelmed by the number of people I try to keep up with and then I have to stop and check myself to remember that not everyone is blessed with too many friends to see, or too many great opportunities to be involved in. There is no way that we deserve these blessings and yet the Lord has so grciously poured them out on us.
I have attached a few picts for the friends far away so that they can get a little taste of the Open House.
We had stations that people could visit that included a guest book where people could sign their names and take a picture, picking paint-we want to paint a couple rooms and asked people to cast their votes for color choices, the art station-we love to do art so we set up a place for people to try their hand at using oil pastels, gobs of food, and a clay and tile station-where people could decorate a tile with clay that we may or may not use to decorate! I think that people had fun with the activities and it gave the kids something to do.
Up above, 2 of my cousins are trying out the oil pastels! I think they made about 12 pictures each! And my friends Jess and Derek making some tiles! They are naturals with the clay!
Overall, I think people had a really good time. I know that we did. We even had one girl tell us that this was the best party that she had ever been to, so we were pleased!
We had stations that
The party was a blast! We had over 100 people show up to give us their support of our new endeavor and a whole bunch more that expressed to us that they wish they could have been there but weren't! I was blown away to say the least! We definitely don't deserve such amazing and seemingly countless people in our lives. I often get overwhelmed by the number of people I try to keep up with and then I have to stop and check myself to remember that not everyone is blessed with too many friends to see, or too many great opportunities to be involved in. There is no way that we deserve these blessings and yet the Lord has so grciously poured them out on us.
I have attached a few picts for the friends far away so that they can get a little taste of the Open House.
We had stations that people could visit that included a guest book where people could sign their names and take a picture, picking paint-we want to paint a couple rooms and asked people to cast their votes for color choices, the art station-we love to do art so we set up a place for people to try their hand at using oil pastels, gobs of food, and a clay and tile station-where people could decorate a tile with clay that we may or may not use to decorate! I think that people had fun with the activities and it gave the kids something to do.
Up above, 2 of my cousins are trying out the oil pastels! I think they made about 12 pictures each! And my friends Jess and Derek making some tiles! They are naturals with the clay!
Overall, I think people had a really good time. I know that we did. We even had one girl tell us that this was the best party that she had ever been to, so we were pleased!
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