Some Holiday Pictures

This is to prove that Emma is an Orr

The giraffe picture is in Maureen's honour.

I guess I took most of our pictures at the zoo! I'll have to get some different ones off the camera...

The pictures are of Emma and her new friend, Kylie, at the Minot Zoo.

Emma's Graduation

Here are our traditional 'hedge pictures,' taken before Emma's grade 8 grad.

Kids these days!!!!

It was great to see how hard Emma and Quinton worked this weekend. From supper time on Friday, to nightfall on Saturday, they slaved away--happily and without complaint. Two children following the example of their grandfathers!

A big thank you to all who came out to provide the girls and I with a new roof. It is so exciting to drive up to the house and not see curled green shingles! :)

I'm so tired, now, that I can hardly think...but I want people to know that their efforts are appreciated.


(for pictures, see Melissa's blog)

Adam and Eve

Isn't it interesting how readily we believe Satan, but have to examine everything God says to see if it is 'real.' Even though Satan is the prince of lies, we still trust everything he says. I mean, the fruit on the tree looked so good, what harm could there be...?

We humans are very strange sometimes.


Genesis 3

Aging

My children once asked me if a certain relative had "always been like that"
No, I said, And I didn't used to be like this either! LOL

It is sad to see people deteriorate, whether it be from age, illness or bad choices. We often forget who they used to be and what brought them to where they are today.

Sometimes there is nothing we can do--it is just the effects of aging. Other times, changes are the result of one bad choice after another. Does there come a point where there is no longer the capacity to go back to making good choices? I don't like to think so, but the evidence seems to be to the contrary.

I wonder how God views that.

I know that people think that I always see the worst in people/situations. Those people don't really know me. I am still waiting for the plastic figurines that my mom ordered for me 40yrs ago. I'm sure they are just lost in the mail.

I kept thinking that surely the cab would turn around and bring him home to start again.

I keep thinking that next time I will be treated with common courtesy and respect.

I keep thinking that God is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine.

Moses saw the promised land but didn't cross over. Do I have the faith to be satisfied with that?

Do I have the faith that even if God decides not to rescue me from the firey furnace, I will still stand firm?

I'm thankful for my family.

I love you.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Profuse the kisses of an enemy.

"I love you" can mean so many things. Sometimes it even means "I love you."

Jesus said it best.

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being poluted by the world. (James 1:27)



I'm not a widow or an orphan, but I feel like I experienced some pure and faultless religion this evening.

Thank you.