Lord, be near us in our pain
and grant us the clear eye of faith to see it from heaven's perspective.
Jesus walked this road.
Help us to follow him gladly.
- Elisabeth Elliot, "A Lamp For My Feet"
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
What is Lillian doing?
Recently, I've noticed Lillian hitting some big developmental milestones:
1. Lillian just won't "drive" her rescue rider if she doesn't have her purse with her. She's just starting to use her feet a little but steering is not a concept she's aware of quite yet.
2. Lillian will sit in the book corner and "read aloud" whatever book she has in her hands at the moment, or just sit quietly and turn the pages. It's just too funny to see her reclining against the big pillow. And, if you're there first, she'll come plop down and "read", too.
3. And, if the book is upside down, she'll flip it over so it's right-side up.
4. Lillian will "fix" my hair if I'm sitting down with her in the play room - trying to put a ribbon or a bow in it.
5. There are multiple times during the day when she'll come to me signing "help" for assistance opening or closing something or getting on the rescue rider.
6. Just recently, she's started taking a little blanket and "wrapping" up her baby in it (or whatever stuffed animal she has taken a shine to at the moment.) Or, she'll come ask me to "help" her and take me to where she has laid out the baby and the blanket. She also likes to put her babies and stuffed animals in the seat on the rocking horse.
7. Lillian is "practicing" on the stairs, crawling up and going down feet first on her tummy. It scares me to death, but she's actually getting pretty good going up.
Also, she signs: eat, milk, more, please, thank you, sorry, sleep, help, dog, all done/all gone, bird, bath, baby, fish, kitty cat, the phrase "I don't know" (both hands in the air), and a variety of other random things like airplane and i love you.
She says: daddy ("da"), mama, dog, duck, bath, and she'll repeat people's names if you say them to her (like, I'll say "Aunt Jill" or "Mary-Blake") and she'll "say" what I said.
She knows her: nose, mouth, ears, hair, eyes, toes, feet, fingers, fingernails, hands, bebo (belly button) *If you tell her to listen, she'll touch her ear and tilt her head ever so slightly.
These may not seem big to you, but in the space of just 16 short months, a lot can happen - and this type of thing is cause for excitement and innumerable prayers of thanks to God for this precious gift He has given us.
p.s. We went down to the lake this evening and Lillian saw a big white duck up close. She was in awe. We were still and it came right up to the water lapping on the beach. She didn't make a noise and it squawked and squawked. We must have watched is for almost 20 minutes. Now when you ask Lillian what the duck says, she makes a hilarious noise.
1. Lillian just won't "drive" her rescue rider if she doesn't have her purse with her. She's just starting to use her feet a little but steering is not a concept she's aware of quite yet.
2. Lillian will sit in the book corner and "read aloud" whatever book she has in her hands at the moment, or just sit quietly and turn the pages. It's just too funny to see her reclining against the big pillow. And, if you're there first, she'll come plop down and "read", too.
3. And, if the book is upside down, she'll flip it over so it's right-side up.
4. Lillian will "fix" my hair if I'm sitting down with her in the play room - trying to put a ribbon or a bow in it.
5. There are multiple times during the day when she'll come to me signing "help" for assistance opening or closing something or getting on the rescue rider.
6. Just recently, she's started taking a little blanket and "wrapping" up her baby in it (or whatever stuffed animal she has taken a shine to at the moment.) Or, she'll come ask me to "help" her and take me to where she has laid out the baby and the blanket. She also likes to put her babies and stuffed animals in the seat on the rocking horse.
7. Lillian is "practicing" on the stairs, crawling up and going down feet first on her tummy. It scares me to death, but she's actually getting pretty good going up.
Also, she signs: eat, milk, more, please, thank you, sorry, sleep, help, dog, all done/all gone, bird, bath, baby, fish, kitty cat, the phrase "I don't know" (both hands in the air), and a variety of other random things like airplane and i love you.
She says: daddy ("da"), mama, dog, duck, bath, and she'll repeat people's names if you say them to her (like, I'll say "Aunt Jill" or "Mary-Blake") and she'll "say" what I said.
She knows her: nose, mouth, ears, hair, eyes, toes, feet, fingers, fingernails, hands, bebo (belly button) *If you tell her to listen, she'll touch her ear and tilt her head ever so slightly.
These may not seem big to you, but in the space of just 16 short months, a lot can happen - and this type of thing is cause for excitement and innumerable prayers of thanks to God for this precious gift He has given us.
p.s. We went down to the lake this evening and Lillian saw a big white duck up close. She was in awe. We were still and it came right up to the water lapping on the beach. She didn't make a noise and it squawked and squawked. We must have watched is for almost 20 minutes. Now when you ask Lillian what the duck says, she makes a hilarious noise.
My Own Canoe - Elisabeth Elliot
Title: My Own Canoe
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Devotion: Elisabeth Elliot
Book: A Lamp For My Feet
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"The rule of the universe," wrote C.S. Lewis to his friend Arthur Greeves, is "that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own" (They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves, p. 514).
This is grace--God graciously doing for us what we cannot do and so constructing human life that we are allowed to help--i.e., to give life to others. In our pride we try to save ourselves, but it is impossible. We can only lose by trying. It is when we stop straining to paddle our own canoe and let Another paddle it for us, or give ourselves to paddle someone else's ("bearing his burdens") that we fulfill the law of Christ.
The wind carries the seed, the bee the pollen, the mother the child. So life is borne and born.
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Devotion: Elisabeth Elliot
Book: A Lamp For My Feet
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"The rule of the universe," wrote C.S. Lewis to his friend Arthur Greeves, is "that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own" (They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves, p. 514).
This is grace--God graciously doing for us what we cannot do and so constructing human life that we are allowed to help--i.e., to give life to others. In our pride we try to save ourselves, but it is impossible. We can only lose by trying. It is when we stop straining to paddle our own canoe and let Another paddle it for us, or give ourselves to paddle someone else's ("bearing his burdens") that we fulfill the law of Christ.
The wind carries the seed, the bee the pollen, the mother the child. So life is borne and born.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Book Corner
Lillian has two passions in life (well, three, if you count eating): books and babies. Thankfully, they all live peacefully together in a little place we call "book corner", in the playroom. Here are a few shots from that blessed place.
p.s. One of her favorite books to "read" is The Jungle Book; you'll see her "Mowgli" impression in this picture.
Running after all these things...
MATTHEW 6:25-34
Do Not Worry
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Do Not Worry
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Peace by blood
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created,
in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities –
all things were created through him and for him.
And he is before all things,
and in him all things hold together.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
that in everything he might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
whether on earth or in heaven,
making peace by the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:15-20
the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created,
in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities –
all things were created through him and for him.
And he is before all things,
and in him all things hold together.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
that in everything he might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
whether on earth or in heaven,
making peace by the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:15-20
Sunday, March 1, 2009
My supreme goal is to follow Christ.
If our supreme goal is to follow Christ, the rule of our lives will be my life for yours. We will be directing our energies far more toward the will of God and the service of others than to our own heart's longings.
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