If you have 2-minutes to spare we’d love for you to watch our Christmas Tree Timelapse from this year – it’s a tradition our young family has had since 2006!
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IF you have a few more minutes, we dare you to watch a few of our other timelapses! It’s amazing to see how the quality has improved (I think I used a can opener to film the one in 2006), and to see how our family has grown over these years!
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What a treat it was to wake up to a 5AM phone call alerting us to the fact that there would be no school today due to the snowstorm!
We went back to bed for a couple hours not expecting the snow to be ‘as bad as they said it could be’, but we were all pleasantly surprised that we did have about four inches of wonderful, pack-able, playable snow!
After a spontaneous pancake-and-egg breakfast we bundled up and headed out!
A snowman and snow fort were our biggest priorities and I’m please to announce we accomplished both!
Check out our highlight video from today’s epic adventure:
Wow. Just had an opportunity to be reminded of the importance of friendship.
This morning after our third service I was doing the handshake thing as people were leaving and heard my name used in the hallway. I glanced around and saw two familiar faces. As my brain quickly compared those faces with my internal Rolodex I quickly recognized Bob and Linda Moore from Chesnee, SC!
They were on the highway today on their way back to SC and saw a sign for New Stanton being a mere 30 miles out of their way! They took a chance and came into church just in time to hear the sermon.
We quickly made some things happen to have lunch with them and they treated us to Cracker Barrel! It was so great spending just a couple hours with them and catching up on how much life has happened since we’d last seen them (3 years ago!)
Bob and Linda attended the two churches my dad pastored in SC, they were at our wedding in Warsaw, IN and probably a hundred-other life-moments in my life as I grew up in SC!
So, my life-lesson today has been that I DESPERATELY want to be the kind of friend that Bob and Linda are to my family to those I call my friends. It’s authentic, unassuming, and Christ-filled!
As Bob and Linda left our house from a short after-lunch visit, I thanked God for friends like them! Thank you Lord for those people in our lives who seek to make us feel special!
My buddy Glen and his wife have launched a new blog, “Gospel-Centered Parenting“.
From the site:
Gospel-centered parenting is different from all other forms of parenting because its primary goal is the salvation of the child’s soul, which results in a changed heart and changed behavior for the glory of God.
Therefore, the focus of gospel-centered parenting is to parent in a way that models and instructs the life and redemptive work of Jesus Christ.
Adding this one to my daily-reads for sure!
