So my posting 3 times a week has not been going great. But it was Easter week.
We are still not licensed as foster parents yet. I have no clue why. Our case worker thought it would happen last Monday, it still hasn't. I'm assuming that its because of the Easter holiday. Chazley and I are just nervous still. We figure God is working it out to His liking, and that we will get the exact kids we're supposed to. But still waiting isn't all that fun.
Easter seemed to go well. We had an Easter egg hunt. Some 800 eggs and some 15 kids. Each kid basically filled there basket and had to get a sack to keep going. It was fun.
And that is what our life has been like. Waiting, studying, teaching, spending time with people.
Prayers are appreciated.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Busyness
So my original goal when I restarted my blogging was to blog on Mon, Wed, and Fri. I already missed Monday. Oh well.
Sunday was a good day. Sunday night we discussed the first 6 chapter of 1 Samuel. Chapter four kind of stuck out to me. In it the Tribes or Israel take on the Philistines and lose. So they go and grab the ark, what they see as the throne of God ensuring to them the presence of God, and then they lose and the ark is taken. It made me think about how we kind of do that in our lives sometimes. We take a particular path in our lives, and instead of asking God if its His will we try to assume or force Him to go our way. Even if our path is a good path this is still the wrong process. There are choices that don't break the commandments of God that are still wrong for us, because they are not God's will for us. Our God is not a list of rules, He is a living God, and we are not called to just follow a set of rules, but to actively pursue the will and desire of God.
Monday and Tuesday I went to the T.B. Maston Ethics Lectures at Logsdon Seminary. They were pretty good. Monday's was about the life of T.B. Maston. Which was very interesting. My only problem was that the man speaking only praised Maston, and it came off as if he had little to no faults in his life. I always feel like a biography is incomplete when nothing is told of their difficulties, battles or struggles. Not to say that we can't learn from another persons success, but if that is all we know of them then they don't quite seem human. I become a little more inspired when I see the struggles people go through and overcome.
But overall the lectures were very good.
Sunday was a good day. Sunday night we discussed the first 6 chapter of 1 Samuel. Chapter four kind of stuck out to me. In it the Tribes or Israel take on the Philistines and lose. So they go and grab the ark, what they see as the throne of God ensuring to them the presence of God, and then they lose and the ark is taken. It made me think about how we kind of do that in our lives sometimes. We take a particular path in our lives, and instead of asking God if its His will we try to assume or force Him to go our way. Even if our path is a good path this is still the wrong process. There are choices that don't break the commandments of God that are still wrong for us, because they are not God's will for us. Our God is not a list of rules, He is a living God, and we are not called to just follow a set of rules, but to actively pursue the will and desire of God.
Monday and Tuesday I went to the T.B. Maston Ethics Lectures at Logsdon Seminary. They were pretty good. Monday's was about the life of T.B. Maston. Which was very interesting. My only problem was that the man speaking only praised Maston, and it came off as if he had little to no faults in his life. I always feel like a biography is incomplete when nothing is told of their difficulties, battles or struggles. Not to say that we can't learn from another persons success, but if that is all we know of them then they don't quite seem human. I become a little more inspired when I see the struggles people go through and overcome.
But overall the lectures were very good.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
I'm back
I decided to try blogging again. I don't know why, and I don't know how well I'll do at keeping up with it, but its something I wanted to try again. I've probably been inspired by my wife's blog http://chazleydotson.blogspot.com/
Things here are good. Chazley and I have finished our foster to adopt classes. We are now eagerly waiting for our certification to come through. I'm really eager, excited, nervous, and a million other things. I'm so ready to be a father. I've had such a good father and I want to be that kind of person in someones life. To let them know that they are loved and that they are amazing and that I am there for them no matter what. To get to see them grow and change. To get to see Chazley be a mother to them. I just can't wait, even if it does terrify me a little.
The pastorate is going well. For some reason it seems like most of the people like me. It still seems weird to me at times that I'm a pastor. I always thought there was no way I would ever be a pastor. I told God when I was younger that He would have to take me kicking and screaming into a pastorate. But God brought me to the point where I was eager for it. And now that I am a pastor I realize how much I love it. I love the studying and the teaching. I love getting out and being part of a community. I love ministering to people in the good times, bad times, and even mundane times. It's amazing to get to be a part of what God is doing.
Today I got to hang out with my wife some around breakfast before she shut herself off into her writing room. Her dedication and work habits always impress me even if she does come out dancing to music from time to time. I ran errands around town, read my Bible, read some of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, read some of J.S. Whale's Christian Doctrines (which I have been really impressed by so far), and this afternoon we get to go to a sweet little girl's birthday party and an amazing couples' 65th anniversary party.
It's just one of those good days. I feel close to God and just pretty content with life.
What makes you happy in life lately? Are you content with where you are? Is God?
Things here are good. Chazley and I have finished our foster to adopt classes. We are now eagerly waiting for our certification to come through. I'm really eager, excited, nervous, and a million other things. I'm so ready to be a father. I've had such a good father and I want to be that kind of person in someones life. To let them know that they are loved and that they are amazing and that I am there for them no matter what. To get to see them grow and change. To get to see Chazley be a mother to them. I just can't wait, even if it does terrify me a little.
The pastorate is going well. For some reason it seems like most of the people like me. It still seems weird to me at times that I'm a pastor. I always thought there was no way I would ever be a pastor. I told God when I was younger that He would have to take me kicking and screaming into a pastorate. But God brought me to the point where I was eager for it. And now that I am a pastor I realize how much I love it. I love the studying and the teaching. I love getting out and being part of a community. I love ministering to people in the good times, bad times, and even mundane times. It's amazing to get to be a part of what God is doing.
Today I got to hang out with my wife some around breakfast before she shut herself off into her writing room. Her dedication and work habits always impress me even if she does come out dancing to music from time to time. I ran errands around town, read my Bible, read some of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, read some of J.S. Whale's Christian Doctrines (which I have been really impressed by so far), and this afternoon we get to go to a sweet little girl's birthday party and an amazing couples' 65th anniversary party.
It's just one of those good days. I feel close to God and just pretty content with life.
What makes you happy in life lately? Are you content with where you are? Is God?
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